Former School and School-House Now Offices and Workshop to Valley Farmers is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. School, office, workshop.
Former School and School-House Now Offices and Workshop to Valley Farmers
- WRENN ID
- deep-threshold-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1987
- Type
- School, office, workshop
- Address
- Former School and School-House Now Offices and Workshop to Valley Farmers, Church Street, Witheridge
- OS grid reference
- SS 802 145
- Coordinates
- 50.91816, -3.70483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former school and school-house, now serving as offices and a workshop for Mole Valley Farmers, was built in 1846 with an addition made in 1898. The building is constructed of random rubble and features slate roofs with wide eaves at the gable ends, along with a stone bellcote on the ridge to the right.
The structure consists of a two-storey school-house on the right, which is attached to a single-storey schoolroom. It is designed in a loose Tudor style. The exterior displays a mix of one and two-storey heights, with an asymmetrical front featuring a window arrangement of 2:1:1:1:2. The two-bayed school-house on the right has two-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows, each with diamond-paned cast-iron casements. Between these windows is a blocked door opening with a four-centred arch. The single-storey schoolroom to the left mirrors the style of the school-house and has three shallow front-facing gabled wings, with two-light stone-mullioned windows, one of which is blocked. The interior has been largely stripped of detail due to its current use as offices and a workshop.
Local climate
Former School and School-House Now Offices and Workshop to Valley Farmers receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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