The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 1997. School.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- late-postern-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1997
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, Bettws Cedewain, Bettws
- OS grid reference
- SO 122 968
- Coordinates
- 52.56257, -3.29556
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old School is a simple brick school room with a slate roof, built in 1852. It features a right-side brick stack, part of which has been renewed, and has projecting boarded eaves. A centrally placed porch includes a plaque dated 1852 above the doorway, which has a boarded door set beneath a flat brick arch, along with a small fixed light in the left side wall. On either side of the porch, there are windows under flat brick arches with exaggerated splays; the right window is a four-light with a transom, while the left window has been replaced. In the left gable, there is a three-light window with a transom under a segmental head. At the rear, there is an integral lean-to under the slate roof, and the right gable has a corrugated iron lean-to. Inside, the single classroom has a king post roof with diagonal struts.
Local climate
The Old School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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