School House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1964. House. 2 related planning applications.
School House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-spindle-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1964
- Type
- House
- Address
- School House, High Street, Swineshead, MK44 2AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 058 658
- Coordinates
- 52.28037, -0.45016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School House is a 16th-century house located on the north side of High Street in Swineshead. It features a colour-washed rough cast exterior on a timber frame and has an old clay tile roof. The building is designed in a T-plan, with two storeys and a two-storey porch wing at the front, along with a one-storey and attic addition at the west end. The west addition includes a three-light casement window. The porch wing has a two-light casement window on the first floor and a 20th-century front door with a gabled canopy. The main block has three-light side sliding sash windows on each floor, while the cross-wing gable end features a two-light side sliding sash window on each floor. All windows are fitted with leaded lights. There is a 20th-century porch on the east elevation and 20th-century extensions at the rear.
Local climate
School House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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