Old School and Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1974. Educational. 2 related planning applications.
Old School and Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-minaret-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1974
- Type
- Educational
- Address
- Old School and Schoolhouse, Main Street, Denton, LS29 0HF
- OS grid reference
- SE 143 490
- Coordinates
- 53.93704, -1.78315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former school and schoolhouse, dating from the mid-19th century, with restoration work carried out in the mid-20th century. It is now used as offices. The building is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with a blue slate roof. It comprises a single-storey, three-bay range with a projecting, two-storey gabled wing to the right. The design is in a Jacobethan style. An entrance is located to the right of the main range, featuring a 20th-century board door within a gabled porch. The porch is topped by a gabled bellcote. Mullioned windows with hoodmoulds are present; the left side has windows of 3 lights, while the wing has windows of 1 and 3 lights on the ground floor and 1 and 2 lights on the first floor. The building has flat-faced stone gutter brackets, gable copings, and a ridge stack above the entrance with two octagonal flues, along with a three-flue stack to the far right. The rear elevation contains a 20th-century board door under a hoodmould, flanked by two-light mullioned windows. Three dormer windows are positioned above the eaves line; the one on the left is likely original, while the others date from around 1980. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included on the list primarily for its group value.
Local climate
Old School and Schoolhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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