Former School is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1980. A C19 School.
Former School
- WRENN ID
- winter-beam-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1980
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former School, Winton
- OS grid reference
- NY 784 105
- Coordinates
- 54.48991, -2.33421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former school, originally founded in 1659, is housed in a building constructed in 1862, which features a panel listing the names of its subscribers at the end of the porch. The structure is made of coursed, squared rubble with rusticated quoins and includes ashlar blocks that bear the names of the subscribers. The eaves are decorated with boards beneath a graduated slate roof, and there is a belfry with a weather vane at the east end, along with conical metal chimneys. The building is a single tall storey. On the west side, there is a plank door leading into a gabled central porch on the north elevation, flanked by single windows with glazing bars set in stone surrounds that have projecting imposts and a keystone above the semicircular heads. Similar windows are found on the south and west elevations. Additionally, a lower gabled fuel store has been added to the east return. Inside, the entrance to the fuel store features a re-used lintel that is initialled and dated: W.M. (for the founder, Rev. William Morland) 1659.
Local climate
Former School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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