Former Chapel School is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. School.
Former Chapel School
- WRENN ID
- solemn-pewter-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former Chapel School, Muker, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- NY 893 011
- Coordinates
- 54.4054, -2.16632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Chapel School, dated 1847, is a single-storey building constructed of coursed rubble with a stone slate roof. It features three bays and has a lower projecting gabled porch with ashlar quoins. The entrance is located in the right side of the porch, which also contains a 4-pane sash window. The building has 9-pane casement windows and ashlar copings. There is an end stack on the right side, and on the left gable, there is a bellcote with heart-shaped openings inscribed "W. A. METCALFE A.D. 1847". This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Former Chapel School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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