The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1988. School.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- pitched-ashlar-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1988
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, Hockworthy
- OS grid reference
- ST 039 195
- Coordinates
- 50.96689, -3.36922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a school and master's house built around 1870. It is constructed from snecked local grey-coloured limestone, featuring ashlar quoins and cream-coloured sandstone details. The building has grey limestone stacks with sandstone octagonal chimney shafts and a slate roof.
The structure has a T-shaped plan, with the main block, which serves as the school, facing south. The master's house is a two-room plan crosswing with two projecting outer lateral stacks. The school is mostly a single storey but is as tall as the two-storey master's house.
The exterior features a three-window front with double-lancet windows that have transoms. The first-floor window in the gable end of the master's house to the right is similar but includes a quatrefoil light above, creating an Early Decorated plate tracery window. The left gable end has the same arrangement of two ground floor double lancets and a first-floor plate-tracery window. Most windows still contain rectangular panes of leaded glass, although some have been replaced with plate glass. Both the main block and the master's house have gable-ended roofs with shaped kneelers and coping, and the roofs are steeply pitched. A lead lantern topped with a wrought iron weathervane is located over the school. The entrances to both the school and the master's house are at the rear, accessed through a lean-to porch situated at the angles of the wings.
The interior has not been inspected. This relatively unmodernised building is located next to the churchyard and contributes to the unspoilt character of the centre of Hockworthy parish, which includes several other important listed buildings.
Local climate
The Old School receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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