Former School is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1988. A C19 School. 2 related planning applications.
Former School
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-quoin-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1988
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former School, Kilburn High and Low, North Yorkshire, YO61 4AH
- OS grid reference
- SE 513 795
- Coordinates
- 54.20952, -1.2141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former school, dated 1841, is now used as a store. It was built for Edward, Archbishop of York. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone and has a purple slate roof. It has an E-shaped plan, with the right limb projecting to the rear. The structure is single storey and consists of four bays, featuring a projecting gabled central porch and outer bays. The porch has a step up to a board door beneath a stone lintel. Each of the flanking and outer bays contains a two-light, 16-pane side-sliding sash window with a stone lintel and a projecting sill. The right-hand gable has a slit vent, while the left-hand gable features a square plaque in a raised stone surround commemorating the Archbishop, who died in 1847 and rebuilt the school. Above this plaque is a small rectangular opening with a bell. The eaves overhang on wooden brackets. There is a brick stack on the right side and another to the rear left. An outshut to the right is not of special interest. The rear has two windows similar to those at the front in the central bays, while the left bay, which has a 20th-century window, projects under a hipped roof. The right return also has two windows matching those at the front.
Local climate
Former School receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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