Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1986. School, schoolmaster's house. 6 related planning applications.
Old School
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-pier-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1986
- Type
- School, schoolmaster's house
- Address
- Old School, Hardraw, Hawes, High Abbotside, North Yorkshire, DL8 3LZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 866 912
- Coordinates
- 54.31624, -2.2068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School, dated 1875, is a former school and schoolmaster's house that may have been designed by R H Carpenter. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressing and features a Westmorland slate roof.
The building consists of a single-storey bay to the left, which is attached to a gabled two-storey bay on the right that serves as the house. The school section is set back and is a single-storey structure with five bays, two of which are gabled.
The house has a part-glazed door in the left bay and three-light mullion-and-transom windows in the right bay, complete with bargeboards on the gable and oversailing eaves. There is an eaves stack to the right, and the left return is hung with Welsh slates.
In the school section, from the left, there is a four-panel door beneath a two-pane overlight located in an open porch supported by a Tuscan colonnette at the angle. The school features three-, four-, and three-light mullion windows, as well as two cross windows with a dated quatrefoil above. It also has bargeboards on the gable and oversailing eaves. The roof slope contains three wooden vents, and there is a stack on the apex of the right gable, along with a lateral rear central stack.
Local climate
Old School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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