The Old Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. School, storehouse. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- rusted-outpost-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School, storehouse
- Address
- The Old Schoolhouse, Stanwix Rural, CA3 9AA
- OS grid reference
- NY 415 570
- Coordinates
- 54.90438, -2.91357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Schoolhouse is a storehouse that was formerly a school, built in 1835 for George Head Head. It features walls made of calciferous sandstone ashlar and has a graduated slate roof. The building is single storey and consists of five bays. The west gable includes a gabled entrance porch with a slate roof, which has a chamfered entrance surround with a hood-mould and two four-panel doors. Above the doors, there is a stone panel with raised lettering that reads "BOYS SCHOOL" along with the date. The porch is flanked by two square-headed lancet windows, and above the porch, there is a corbelled square bellcote with louvred vents and a finial. The north face of the building has a chamfered plinth course and cross-mullioned diamond leaded casements with hood-moulds, as well as coped gables with pronounced kneelers. The external condition of the building is unaltered, but there are no remaining internal features. Mr. Head built this school at his own expense and paid the schoolmaster, who served for over 40 years. After the schoolmaster's death, the pupils were transferred to Stanwix School.
Local climate
The Old Schoolhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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