Church House 20 Yards East of the Church of St Catherine is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. Schoolhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Church House 20 Yards East of the Church of St Catherine
- WRENN ID
- stranded-entrance-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- Address
- Church House 20 Yards East of the Church of St Catherine, HR2 6QQ
- OS grid reference
- SO 546 294
- Coordinates
- 51.9613, -2.66207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House, located 20 yards east of the Church of St Catherine, is a former schoolroom and schoolhouse built around 1865. It features sandstone ashlar dressings and rubble, with brick construction and hipped slate roofs, along with brick and sandstone stacks. The building has a rectangular plan and is two storeys tall with an attic, facing east.
The east elevation includes a symmetrical arrangement of windows: a single light to the left gable front, a sexfoil window above the central entrance, and a three-light mullioned window to the right. The left ground floor window has a single light and is accompanied by a weathered buttress at the corner. The right side features a full-height canted bay with a hipped roof, lacking angle windows, and a three-light mullioned window with a single transom and relieving arch on the ground floor. The neo-Romanesque center is marked by one column with a leaved capital that separates two trefoiled heads. Below the right trefoil is a square-headed entrance doorway with rounded shoulders; the door has three rows of three panels, with the top three glazed in a lancet style. The left trefoil leads to stairs rising to the south, which access a panelled door to the schoolroom.
The south elevation displays relieving arches above two storeys of mullioned windows, with the upper windows featuring staggered mullions. There is an entrance to the right under a chamfered and pointed arch. Inside the schoolroom, the roof has two bays with a collar truss, angle struts from the king-strut above the collar, and principals supported by braces. The friezes at wall-plate level are decorated with painted panels depicting animals, flowers, and birds, including a monkey and goats. The building is prominently visible from the opposite bank of the river to the east and south, contributing significantly to the setting of the Church of St Catherine.
Local climate
Church House 20 Yards East of the Church of St Catherine receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings