School House is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. School house.

School House

WRENN ID
still-pediment-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Constituency
Newcastle-under-Lyme MP: Adam Jogee (Lab)
Country
England
Type
School house
Address
School House, Knutton Road
OS grid reference
SJ 855 480
Coordinates
53.0299, -2.21722
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The School House, built in 1871 by James Brooks, is a two-storey brick building with a plain tiled roof featuring ridge cresting. It has two bays, with an advanced gable on the left side that includes a four-light mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor and an oriel bay above, supported by long raking struts. To the right, the roofline extends over a porch, and there are gable end stacks.

Local climate

School House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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