School House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

School House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1985
Type
House
Address
School House, Ilam, Staffordshire Moorlands
OS grid reference
SK 133 509
Coordinates
53.05598, -1.80158
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

School House, built around 1855 by George Gilbert Scott, is a two-storey building designed in a vernacular revival style. The structure features coursed and squared rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings on the ground floor, while the upper storey is characterized by close studded timber framing. The roof is covered with clay tiles and has ashlar stacks of octagonal shape with crenellated caps.

On the main range, the ground floor has two three-light stone mullioned windows with rebated surrounds that contain leaded casements. The first floor boasts a five-light oriel window with wooden mullions and tracery. The gable end of the main range to the left is jettied and displays diamond pattern framing and cusped barge boards. To the right, there is a lean-to porch that features an ogee headed board door.

This building is an important part of the picturesque estate village that Scott rebuilt in the 1850s.

Local climate

School House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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