Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. School. 5 related planning applications.
Old School
- WRENN ID
- dusk-gargoyle-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old School, the Laning, Dent, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5QJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 704 870
- Coordinates
- 54.27817, -2.45572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School in Dent is a National School building, now serving as a school hall and public meeting room. It is dated 1845 on the porch and has been altered over time. The structure is made of coursed squared sandstone with freestone quoins and dressings, topped by a graduated slate roof. It has a rectangular plan oriented on an east-west axis, facing north, with a projecting porch.
The building is single-storey with four symmetrical windows. The central feature is a large gabled porch that includes a round-headed doorway with a chamfered surround, an arched hoodmould, and double board doors fitted with strap hinges. Above the doors is a panel inscribed with "NATIONAL / SCHOOL / 1845," which is also topped with a hoodmould. The gable has coping and kneelers. On either side of the porch are two tall 2-light mullioned windows with round-headed lights and hoodmoulds. The building has plain gutter brackets and coped gables with kneelers. Originally, there were a pair of diagonal chimneys and a cone-shaped ventilator, but these are now missing. At the rear, there is a 20th-century single-storey school building attached.
Inside, the space consists of one vessel and has been altered. The Old School forms a group with the Old Post Office located diagonally opposite.
Local climate
Old School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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