School House is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. House.
School House
- WRENN ID
- floating-buttress-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- School House, Market Place, Penkridge
- OS grid reference
- SJ 924 141
- Coordinates
- 52.72485, -2.11299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School House is a building from 1818, designed by Joseph Potter. It is constructed of brown brick and features a slate roof with coped verges on kneelers and brick external end stacks. The building is in the Gothic style and has two storeys with an eaves band. There are three pointed windows with casements that include Gothic-style glazing bars. The central entrance consists of a six-panelled door set within a panelled doorcase, topped by a pointed overlight that also contains Gothic-style glazing bars and a bracketed hood. To the left of the door, there is a shoe-scraper with a pointed arch.
Local climate
School House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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