Old Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1986. Schoolhouse.

Old Schoolhouse

WRENN ID
seventh-soffit-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1986
Type
Schoolhouse
Address
Old Schoolhouse, Church Street, Amotherby
OS grid reference
SE 750 734
Coordinates
54.15123, -0.85278
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Schoolhouse, originally built as a schoolhouse in 1744, is now a house. It was later extended, raised, and remodeled, with a schoolroom added around 1860. The building is constructed of squared sandstone, while the schoolroom features hammer-dressed sandstone. It has a pantile roof with brick and stone elements, including one rebuilt stack. The original structure had a two-cell, direct-entry plan, which was extended to the right, with the schoolroom added to the front left.

This two-storey building has a single window at the center front, with a two-storey, single window extension set back to the right and a projecting wing to the left. The central front features a plank door in a segment-arched opening, along with a similar door with a timber lintel in the extension. There are two-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows with painted stone sills and painted timber lintels to the right of both doors and on the first floor. A datestone is positioned above the central door, and there are end and center right stacks.

The schoolroom wing includes a door with six recessed panels in the return front, set in a Tudor-arched opening on chamfered jambs, beneath a square, stopped hoodmould. The gabled front features two 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion and transom windows, also with square, stopped hoodmoulds. In the gable apex, there is a recessed, uncarved panel in a round-arched, chamfered surround beneath a floating cornice. The gable is coped with shaped kneelers and has a gable-end stack on corbels. At the rear, traces of a blocked fire window are visible to the center left. Inside, the room at the back of the schoolroom has exposed chamfered beams and square section joists.

Local climate

Old Schoolhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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