Former Weslyan Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1993. School, community hall.
Former Weslyan Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- tall-stronghold-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1993
- Type
- School, community hall
- Address
- Former Weslyan Sunday School, Chapel Street, Dalton Town with Newton
- OS grid reference
- SD 228 741
- Coordinates
- 54.15744, -3.18269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Wesleyan Sunday School, now serving as a guide and scout hall, was built in 1896. It features snecked, squared limestone with red sandstone dressings and has a graduated slate roof. The building is single-storey and consists of three bays, with a full-width wing at the rear. It has a chamfered plinth and a central doorway with quoined edges and a shouldered lintel. Above the doorway, there is a plaque that reads 'WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL/ THIS STONE WAS LAID BY/ MR J S LAWN/ JULY 29th/ 1896'. The outer bays contain quoined cross-windows with 9-pane transom lights. Other notable features include an ogee cast-iron gutter, roll-moulded terracotta ridge tiles with ventilators, and a corniced end stack on the right side. On the right return, the windows match those on the front, and there is a gable slit along with a panelled double door that has an overlight. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Former Weslyan Sunday School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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