School House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1988. Residential, educational.
School House
- WRENN ID
- distant-rampart-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1988
- Type
- Residential, educational
- Address
- School House, Newtown, Baschurch
- OS grid reference
- SJ 425 221
- Coordinates
- 52.79348, -2.85328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House is a building that was originally constructed in the early 18th century and later became part of a school before being converted back into a house. It features red sandstone ashlar with a red brick addition and has a hipped slate roof. The original structure is a rectangular block with three bays across and one bay deep, and it has a central entrance that was extended by one bay to the left in the mid to late 19th century.
The building stands two storeys high with an attic, set on a chamfered plinth, and has a continuous floor band and corner pilasters. On the first floor, there are three small 19th-century casement windows alternating with two gabled dormers in the roof slope. The ground floor features 19th-century casements set in 18th-century round-arched moulded architraves, which have plain pilasters, imposts, and projecting keystones on either side of the central entrance. This entrance includes a slightly recessed 20th-century half-glazed door within an 18th-century moulded surround, topped by a bracketed flat hood and a moulded broken pediment above.
A prominent ridge stack is located directly above the entrance and has been rebuilt in late 19th-century red brick with a toothed capping. The right side of the building has a blind window on the ground floor with an architrave similar to those on the front, and a rectangular blind opening directly above it. The 19th-century addition includes segmental-headed casements on each floor and an integral end stack with toothed capping.
Local climate
School House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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