The School House is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1979. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The School House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-lime-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The School House, 60, Anstey Lane, Thurcaston and Cropston, LE7 7JA
- OS grid reference
- SK 565 106
- Coordinates
- 52.69045, -1.16411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House is a cottage that was formerly a school, built in 1715 with some later modifications from the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with a granite rubble stone plinth and features a slate roof with rebuilt central ridge stacks on both the right and left sections, the latter being lower. The gable end has a door located on the right side. The right section is two storeys high and has three casement windows: two 2-light windows and one 1-light window above two 3-light windows, with a 2-light window to the left of the door. The left section includes a door and two 2-light casements, along with two 2-light windows and one 1-light window above. Some windows have cambered lintels, and there are blocked windows at the rear. An outshut with a 2-light casement is located on the left end. The school was built and endowed in 1715 by Richard Hill, the rector of Thurcaston.
Local climate
The School House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 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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