PLANNING chiefs have given the go-ahead for heating improvements in the historic heart of Lymm High School.
New installations will be fitted inside the Grade 2 Listed part of the school – the former Oughtrington Hall, which dates from around 1830 but which became part of the school – then a grammar school – in 1945.
Planners were told that without the heating improvements, the for Oughtringhall Hall block would be unsuitable for teaching and would probably have to be closed.
The improvements involve replacing the existing heating installations on the ground, first and second floors, carrying out the work without damaging or affecting the heritage aspects of the building in any way.
New radiators will be placed in the same locations as the existing ones.
Overhead heaters will be installed above all the doorways at all entrances to the building which will prevent heat loss and excessive cold air entering the building.
Warm air rising means there will be no need for additional heaters in corridors on the first and second floors.
The Listed portions of the building include an open stairwell and a library with a marble fireplace which has been ascribed to Adam and a Gothic glazed bookcase.
