School House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. School, private house. 1 related planning application.
School House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-shingle-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1986
- Type
- School, private house
- Address
- School House, Dacre, Westmorland and Furness, CA11 0HL
- OS grid reference
- NY 458 266
- Coordinates
- 54.63178, -2.83986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School House, built in 1749 and now a private house, stands in Dacre. The building has roughcast walls topped by a graduated greenslate roof, with a cement-rendered brick chimney stack. It is a small, one-and-a-half-story building with two bays. The front features two-light stone mullioned windows, each set beneath a continuous quarry-faced hood. A plank door is set into a painted chamfered stone surround on the right return wall, alongside a sash window in a similar painted surround. The school was originally endowed to provide instruction for four poor girls, which explains its small size. It holds group value with the nearby Horse and Farrier Inn.
Local climate
School House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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