Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. A C17 Former school, village hall.
Old School
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-niche-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Former school, village hall
- Address
- Old School, Stanley Street, Beetham
- OS grid reference
- SD 497 794
- Coordinates
- 54.20808, -2.7714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old School is a former school that has been converted into a village hall. It was rebuilt in 1827 on the site of a grammar school that was established in 1663. The building features limestone rubble walls with roughly-dressed limestone quoins and window surrounds, and it has a graduated greenslate roof with a stone ridge. The plan is roughly T-shaped and it is a single storey structure. There is a blocked doorway in the southwest gable, while an inserted doorway in the return has a board door. The building has pointed-arched windows on all sides except for the northeast elevation; the window in the southeast gable has traceried glazing bars, while all other windows are blocked but are said to have leaded glazing. A chimney is located on the southeast gable, and there is a corniced bell-cote made of dressed limestone, topped with a pyramid, on the southwest gable.
Local climate
Old School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings