School House is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. School house.

School House

WRENN ID
winding-spandrel-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
School house
Address
School House, Pound Hill
OS grid reference
TL 444 590
Coordinates
52.21095, 0.11263
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The School House, formerly the teacher's house of Pound Hill School, was built in 1810. It is constructed of grey gault brick and has two storeys with a basement. The building features three windows with sash frames that include glazing bars. Along the front, there are three brick pilasters. The doorway is adorned with a fluted surround, roundels, and a shallow hood. Inside, there is an original staircase. The roof is low pitched and covered with slate.

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 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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