The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Cottage.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- patient-thatch-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old School House, West End, Bishops Cannings
- OS grid reference
- SU 036 643
- Coordinates
- 51.37791, -1.94958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a cottage dating from the 17th and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame with colourwashed brick noggings, a brick front on the north side, and a stone gable on the west. The building has a thatched roof and is single storey with an attic, consisting of three bays, including a narrow bay at the west end that likely served as a lobby entry. The entrance is now located in the west bay, which is behind an external baffle and has a thatched porch. The framing consists of three panels high with corner braces and jowled posts. There are canted oriel windows with tiled roofs and diamond leading. The front elevation includes a gable over the living room, which features a similar oriel window on the first floor. The roof is half-hipped at the ends and over the gable, and there is a shaped brick stack. Inside, there is a timber-framed partition between the left bay and the living room, along with chamfered spine beams.
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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