Old Church School House is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 January 1979. School.
Old Church School House
- WRENN ID
- waning-screen-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Caerphilly MP: Chris Evans (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1979
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old Church School House, Rudry
- OS grid reference
- ST 193 865
- Coordinates
- 51.5723, -3.16561
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Church School House is a long building designed in a simple Gothic style, featuring white rendered walls and a slate roof. The former school, located on the left, is a single storey with an attic, while the former school house on the right is two storeys with an attic. There are rendered stacks on the left gable end and between the school and the school house.
The former school has three windows and a porch to the right of the center, which contains a half-lit door and a boarded door inside. The windows are two-light with pointed heads and Y-tracery, and there are smaller half dormers that match this style. The double-fronted former school house has similar windows and an additional porch with a half-lit door.
On the left gable end, there are added windows at the upper right and left that resemble those on the front, along with a one-storey projection. At the back of the school, there are doorways on the right and left with French doors and pointed heads, as well as three half dormers similar to those at the front. Behind the school house, there is an added projection.
Although not inspected, it is noted that an upper floor was added in the former school room in the late 1970s.
Local climate
Old Church School House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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