The School House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
The School House
- WRENN ID
- last-finial-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The School House, Dorstone, HR3 6AN
- OS grid reference
- SO 313 416
- Coordinates
- 52.06914, -3.00323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House is a house, likely dating from the 17th century, with an addition from 1740 and later alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is built of rendered rubble with a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with a gabled cross-wing extending southwest that is dated 1740. The wing to the northwest probably originates from the 17th century, and features a lobby entry against a stack at its southeast end, with four engaged diamond shafts. A late 19th-century school building is attached to the northwest end and is not included in the listing. The northeast front displays the cross-wing with two storeys to the left, featuring a two-light casement window on each floor. The date "1740" is displayed over the ground floor window. To the right is a two-storey section with a small two-light casement to the left of a three-light casement in a raked dormer. On the ground floor there is an entrance with a half-glazed door and raised surround to the left, and a three-light casement window to the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The School House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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