School, Former Schoolmaster's House and Retaining Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. School. 4 related planning applications.
School, Former Schoolmaster's House and Retaining Wall
- WRENN ID
- keen-loft-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- School, Former Schoolmaster's House and Retaining Wall, the Square, Parwich, Derbyshire Dales, DE6 1QJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 185 545
- Coordinates
- 53.08763, -1.7239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a school, incorporating a former schoolmaster's house and a retaining wall, dated 1861. It is constructed of coursed, squared, rock-faced limestone with sandstone dressings, featuring plain and fishscale tiled roofs and stone coped gables. There are two stone ridge stacks. The building follows an irregular V-plan, with a single-storey school wing to the west, a gabled cross wing, and a one-and-a-half-storey schoolmaster's house to the north. A gabled porch is located at the angle, topped by a wooden bell and clock turret with a steep pyramid roof.
The south elevation has five bays. A central projecting gabled bay includes a three-trefoiled light window with hoodmoulds, which extend down the sides to form a stringcourse. There are two bays on either side, divided by buttresses with two set-offs. Each bay contains a two-trefoiled light window with a similar hoodmould extending down to form a stringcourse. The north wing of the schoolmaster’s house has a lower roofline. The east elevation features a steeply gabled porch, flanked by casement windows, with a further window to the right, all with hoodmoulds and linked by a stringcourse. Two casement windows are positioned above in half dormers.
A stone retaining wall, surmounted by railings and with steps leading up to the porch at the angle, completes the composition.
Local climate
School, Former Schoolmaster's House and Retaining Wall receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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