The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1987. Former school, detached house.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- mired-postern-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1987
- Type
- Former school, detached house
- Address
- The Old School House, the Street, Charlton
- OS grid reference
- ST 964 889
- Coordinates
- 51.599, -2.05328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former village school that has been converted into a detached house, dating from around 1850. It is built from squared and coursed rubble with stone dressings and features a stone slate roof, complete with tall pairs of lateral ashlar stacks at the end walls. The building is designed in the Cotswold vernacular style, intentionally resembling the nearby Village Farmhouse.
The north front is two stories high and has three windows, with the outer upper windows set beneath gables. The windows on the ground floor have chamfered cross-mullions and hoodmoulds, while the upper windows are 2-light cross-mullions, all featuring small pane leaded casements. A central gabled porch with a Tudor-arched entrance leads to a six-panel door. There is a 20th-century wing at the rear that is in a similar style, but the wing to the left is not of special interest.
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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