School House is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1985. House. 5 related planning applications.
School House
- WRENN ID
- western-bracket-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South MP: Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- School House, Birtley Lane, DH3 2PJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 273 556
- Coordinates
- 54.89484, -1.57435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School House, built around 1860, is a one-storey building with dormers, constructed from tooled snecked sandstone featuring ashlar dressings, quoins, and a plinth. The roof is made of Welsh slate with bands of a fishscale pattern. The façade has five bays, with a central half-glazed door set in stop-chamfered alternate-block jambs and a high lintel, located within a porch that has bargeboards and a finial. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are adorned with similar surrounds and bracketed stone sills. The dormers in the second and fourth bays also feature bargeboards and shafts. Both the left and right returns have a window in the bargeboarded gable peak. There are three transverse ridge chimneys made of yellow brick, each with stone cornices and 19th-century yellow chimney pots. This building was originally constructed as the schoolmaster's house for the National School.
Local climate
School House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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