The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 2004. Schoolhouse. 3 related planning applications.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-oriel-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 2004
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- Address
- The Old School House, Penllyn, Cowbridge
- OS grid reference
- SS 973 761
- Coordinates
- 51.4748, -3.47878
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old School House is a building constructed from local limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. It features a schoolroom and a two-storey master's house attached to the left. The main façade has three bays facing the castle drive. To the left is the master's sitting room, which includes a mullion-and-transom window with a diamond lattice casement, and above it is a 2-light bedroom window set in a plain bargeboarded gable. The centre of the building has a gabled porch with a replacement door. To the right, there is a large gable that contains a 3-light mullion-and-transom window with diamond lattice lights for the schoolroom, along with a ventilator in the gable above. The building has two tall stacks with round shafts. The rear service quarters have been altered. The interior was not seen during the resurvey.
Local climate
The Old School House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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