The Old Dame School is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1987. School.
The Old Dame School
- WRENN ID
- nether-merlon-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1987
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old Dame School, South View, Hunton, Bedale, DL8 1QH
- OS grid reference
- SE 188 923
- Coordinates
- 54.32681, -1.7118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Dame School is a house that was originally built as a house and shop in the late 18th to early 19th century. It features coursed sandstone construction with stone slate and pantile roofs, along with wrought-iron railings. The building has two storeys and a layout of two first-floor windows on the left and one on the right. The left section includes a cellar beneath the first bay, while the right section, which was formerly a shop, is set back from the main facade.
At the angle of the building, there is a single-storey porch that has a part-glazed four-panel door set within a doorcase topped with an open pediment. The left section displays quoins and has 20th-century four-pane casement windows framed in ashlar surrounds. The roof features shaped kneelers, with ashlar coping, and is covered in stone slates, with brick stacks at the ends. The right section also has quoins and 20th-century four-pane casement windows in ashlar surrounds, with a pantile roof that has stone slates at the eaves.
On the rear of the building, there is a staircase window that features Gothick glazing bars and a brick round-arched head. The Old Dame School is included in the heritage listing for its group value.
Local climate
The Old Dame School receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 2006
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