Winster School is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. School.
Winster School
- WRENN ID
- tangled-gravel-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- Winster School, Crook, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 417 930
- Coordinates
- 54.32971, -2.8977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Winster School is a building dated 1849, as indicated by the lintel over the entrance. It features limewashed rubble walls with stone quoins and a graduated greenslate roof topped with stone ridge tiles. There is a roughcast rendered chimney on the right-hand gable. The school is a single-storey structure with an entrance porch on the left, which has a low roof and a vertically boarded and studded door beneath a small gable adorned with decorative barge boards. There are two 19th-century sash windows with vertical glazing bars. To the right, there is a small extension at a lower level, featuring a vertically boarded door and a hipped roof. The rear of the building has one sash window and one window with fixed glazing, each containing 36 panes. The school is attractively situated among trees at the edge of the churchyard.
Local climate
Winster School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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