Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1986. Cottage with attached schoolroom. 1 related planning application.

Old School House

WRENN ID
forgotten-turret-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 May 1986
Type
Cottage with attached schoolroom
Address
Old School House, Wylye
OS grid reference
SU 000 385
Coordinates
51.14612, -2.00088
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old School House is a cottage with an attached former schoolroom, dating from the 18th century, with the schoolroom added in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of dressed limestone and flint, featuring a half-hipped thatched roof with a brick stack on the right side, while the schoolroom has a Welsh slate roof and an ashlar bellcote on the north gable. The cottage is positioned at right angles to the village green.

The south front of the cottage is two-storey with five windows. There is a planked door located to the right of centre, accompanied by a 2-light casement to the right and two 2-light casements to the left. On the first floor, there are three 2-light casements and two single-light casements. Attached to the right is a single-storey 19th-century outhouse, which features a planked door and two 4-pane sash windows. The schoolroom at the rear has an external brick stack, a planked door set in a stone chamfered case to the right, and three 8-pane sash windows to the left. The north gable of the schoolroom has a coped verge and an ashlar bellcote. The interior was not accessible during the survey conducted in September 1985.

Local climate

Old School House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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