The Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 March 1992. School. 2 related planning applications.

The Schoolhouse

WRENN ID
silent-buttress-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 March 1992
Type
School
Address
The Schoolhouse, Cascob, Whitton, LD8 2NT
OS grid reference
SO 239 664
Coordinates
52.2905, -3.11628
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Schoolhouse is a former schoolroom built in the 19th century. It is a single-storey structure made of coursed rubble with a slate roof featuring a crested ridge. The front east elevation has a central flush lateral stack made of stone, which has tall raking offsets and dressed quoins, rising through the eaves and featuring a tall cusped ogee-headed window inset. There are two main windows, each with three lights, surrounded by chamfered dressed stone and mullions, with some surviving diamond leaded panes. To the extreme right is a doorway with a chamfered dressed stone surround, leading to a modern glazed door.

The north gable has two tall cusped ogee-headed windows with diamond leaded panes, along with a cusped quatrefoil window above. There is a small single-storey extension made of rubble and slate at the southeast corner, which includes a brick cambered head window and brick dressings.

Adjoining the northwest corner of the schoolroom is the schoolhouse, a two-storey range with a hipped crosswing at the west end. This section is also constructed of coursed rubble and has a slate roof, featuring a single stone lateral stack in the wing with a brick upper. A timber porch with decorative bracing sits on a stone plinth at the corner of the main range and the wing, topped with a lean-to roof. Throughout the building, there are dressed stone chamfered mullion windows, all fitted with modern glazing.

Local climate

The Schoolhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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