Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1970. School, cottage.

Old School House

WRENN ID
pitched-thatch-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 May 1970
Type
School, cottage
Address
Old School House, Lamphey Village, Lamphey
OS grid reference
SN 015 005
Coordinates
51.66816, -4.87136
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old School House is a two-storey cottage built around 1828, originally serving as a National School. It was described in 1834 as a "commodious schoolroom" for about 100 children, accompanied by a neat cottage for the master and mistress. Funding for the school came from the National Society and Charles Mathias, with additional support from the local Vicar, Rev. J B Byers. The land for the school was provided by Mathias on a 60-year lease. Both day and Sunday schools were held here, with the Sunday school possibly existing before the building was constructed. The school received praise in a report from 1847.

Architecturally, the cottage features rendered rubble masonry and a hipped slate roof with tiled hips and ridge. The front elevation faces west and has two windows on the upper storey and three on the ground storey, where the central window was originally a door. The windows are two-light casements with pointed heads, each having three panes above a transom with curved V-bars. The ground storey casements consist of two panes. A similar window on the north elevation is a copy of those on the front. The cottage has rendered end chimneys with capping. There have been modern alterations, including an extension at the rear, a new main entrance, and a conservatory on the north side. Despite these changes, the building is listed for its group value with the nearby Church.

Local climate

Old School House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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