The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. School, school house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-flint-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- School, school house
- Address
- The Old School House, Wick Rissington, GL54 2PN
- OS grid reference
- SP 191 214
- Coordinates
- 51.89135, -1.72324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former school and school house built in 1848. The building is constructed of orange-coloured, coursed, squared, and dressed limestone with cream-coloured quoins. It has stone slate and artificial stone slate roofing, stone ridge tiling, and brick stacks. The building has an 'L' shape, with a single-storey extension to the front and rear right. A gable end projects forwards towards the road.
The ground floor features two-light stone-mullioned casement windows with stopped hoods. The gable end contains a single-light casement with a dressed stone surround, formerly a porch entrance. The first floor of the school house includes single and two-light stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods. A single two-light dormer window is above the school section. A double-glazed door with glazing bars sits within a Tudor-arched surround, incorporating carved spandrels and a stopped hood, situated between the school house and the former entrance porch, which has a blocked door in its return.
The building features flat coped gables, roll-moulded ridge tiling, and gable-end stacks. The interior remains uninspected.
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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