The Old Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. Former schoolmasters' house. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallow-lantern-quill
- 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
- Former schoolmasters' house
- Address
- The Old Schoolhouse, Croft Lane, Newton Kyme Cum Toulston, LS24 9LR
- OS grid reference
- SE 463 448
- Coordinates
- 53.89808, -1.29558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Schoolhouse is a former schoolmasters' house, schoolroom, and barn, now converted into a house. It was built in 1787 for Robert Fairfax, with an infill added in 1908 to connect it to a barn of no particular interest. The building is constructed from magnesian limestone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with gault brick stacks.
It is a two-storey, two-bay house with a single-storey, two-bay schoolroom to the left. A step leads up to the central six-fielded panel door, which is set in a moulded shouldered architrave under a hood. The windows on the ground floor are 12-pane sashes, while the first floor has 20-pane sashes, all with ashlar cills and hoods supported by consoles. The gable ends have ashlar coping. The end stacks are made of ashlar on the right and brick on the left. The schoolroom features 20th-century multi-paned casement windows under 20th-century hoods on consoles. There is a badly weathered marble plaque located between the schoolroom and the house.
Inside, the ground floor rooms have shutters, but the interior has not been fully inspected.
Local climate
The Old Schoolhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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