The Old School And The Old Schoolhouse, Church Street, Lower Gledfield is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971. 2 related planning applications.
The Old School And The Old Schoolhouse, Church Street, Lower Gledfield
- WRENN ID
- rough-flagstone-root
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- Address
- The Old School And The Old Schoolhouse, Church Street, Lower Gledfield, IV24 3BG
- OS grid reference
- NH 593 909
- Coordinates
- 57.88601, -4.37361
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old School and Old Schoolhouse are a pair of buildings dating from 1852, designed by Andrew Maitland. They are located on Church Street, Lower Gledfield. The buildings consist of a single-storey, near-symmetrical six-bay school and a schoolhouse to the east. The schoolhouse is three bays wide, featuring an advanced, gabled porch in the centre with a round-headed entrance, a double plank door, and a fanlight. A similar porch is found in the outer bay of the schoolroom. The schoolroom occupies the western portion. The schoolroom's east gable has a large multi-pane window, with a later window inserted to the left. A finial sits atop the east apex, and the roof is slate with corniced ridge and end stacks. A small, contemporary or near-contemporary gabled wing extends from the rear of the schoolroom. The buildings are constructed of harl pointed rubble with tooled rubble dressings, and contain 12-pane glazing. Advertisements for tenders appeared in the Inverness Courier on July 22nd and August 5th, 1852.
Local climate
The Old School And The Old Schoolhouse, Church Street, Lower Gledfield sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 55 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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
- No sale records on file
- 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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