The Old College is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. Residential. 1 related planning application.
The Old College
- WRENN ID
- keen-facade-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Old College, Market Square, Tideswell, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 151 758
- Coordinates
- 53.27979, -1.77389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old College, built around 1830, was originally a pair of houses that later became a school and is now converted into flats. It is constructed from rubble limestone with gritstone dressings, featuring chamfered quoins and end side wall ashlar stacks. The building has a hipped roof covered with Welsh slates and stands three storeys tall with four bays. The windows are glazing bar sashes set in projecting stone surrounds, and there are plain band courses connecting the second floor window heads and sills. A 20th-century central porch with a flat roof and rendered finish has double doors added in the 20th century. The south end wall and rear elevation contain doorways with quoined surrounds and heavy lintels, all of which are now blocked. The conversion into flats took place in 1983.
Local climate
The Old College sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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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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