The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1990. Former school house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- outer-joist-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1990
- Type
- Former school house
- Address
- The Old School House, Thorpe Green Bank, Fylingdales and Hawsker-Cum-Stainsacre, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- NZ 941 048
- Coordinates
- 54.43075, -0.5495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former school house that has been converted into a private residence. It was built in the late 19th century and features finely herringbone-tooled coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and has stone copings and stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays, with the gabled right bay projecting slightly.
The narrow central bay serves as an extruded porch, which has a broached, canted first floor and a hexagonal spirelet above. The entrance features a boarded door set in a concave-shouldered arch with a flat-pointed head, and there is a small oculus above the door. The outer bays have ground floor three-light stone-mullioned windows with long-shouldered heads and iron lattice glazing, complemented by flat dripmoulds with scrolled ends.
On the first floor, there are two-light trefoil-headed windows with similar glazing, with the left window set in a gabled half-dormer. The left end has ridged gabled footstones that support broad coping, and there are end stacks. The left return of the building is mostly blank except for an offset stack projection. The three-bay rear elevation features similar windows, with the left and centre bays projecting; the centre bay is narrower and includes a tall stair window.
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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