Old School School House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. School. 4 related planning applications.

Old School School House

WRENN ID
dim-copper-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1986
Type
School
Address
Old School School House, Rowlands Castle, East Hampshire, PO8 0AS
OS grid reference
SU 732 123
Coordinates
50.90571, -0.96027
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old School and School House is a former school and master's residence, now divided into two dwellings, built in 1851 by William Burn. It is designed in a Neo-Jacobean style, similar to the nearby Idsworth House, and is likely an estate building. The structure features red brick walls in Flemish bond with blue header diaper patterns, and Bath stone dressings, including a plinth, chamfered quoins, gables with copings, finials, middle steps, and kneelers. It has a steep slate roof with square flues for Tudor stacks.

The north front includes a central school hall, which now has two gabled dormers, three large mullion and transom windows, and a gabled porch on the east side. This section ends with a gabled cross wing that has one storey and an attic, featuring one window above three, set in recessed panels. The west end contains a taller cross wing (the house) with two storeys, showcasing a gabled central porch with an upper gable and a large gable on the south side. Most of the original cast-iron diaper casements remain, along with boarded coupled doors. The rear of the building has projections on each side, with a flat-roofed 20th-century extension on the east side.

Local climate

Old School School House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
  • 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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