The Old Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Disused educational building. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- small-steeple-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Disused educational building
- Address
- The Old Sunday School, Westgate, Tadcaster, LS24 9AB
- OS grid reference
- SE 485 434
- Coordinates
- 53.88485, -1.26355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Sunday School is a disused building that was undergoing restoration in 1984. It was built by subscription in 1788, with a plaque indicating this, and was enlarged in 1908, also by subscription, as noted on central plaques. The building features limeswashed stucco with ashlar dressings and a roof covered in Welsh slates.
It is a single-storey structure with a four-bay center flanked by single-storey, single-bay wings. The central section has steps leading up to two six-panel doors, one of which is a reconstruction, beneath a radial fanlight with glazing bars set in tooled ashlar architraves. Each end has a Venetian window; the center features a 16-pane sash window with radial glazing at the top, flanked by 8-pane lights, all within a tooled architrave. The roof is hipped.
The wings have a plinth and steps leading to a 20th-century reconstructed six-panel door set under a blocked elliptical arch. The coping is ramped towards the center and topped with a ball finial, concealing the hipped roof to the left. The rear of the building also has two similar Venetian windows.
Local climate
The Old Sunday School receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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