Church of England Primary School School House is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1983. School.
Church of England Primary School School House
- WRENN ID
- riven-chamber-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1983
- Type
- School
- Address
- Church of England Primary School School House, Clay Street, Soham, CB7 5HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 591 730
- Coordinates
- 52.33229, 0.33447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of England Primary School and School House, built in 1863, features an asymmetrical plan. The school is constructed of brick with flint casing and yellow gault brick quoins, while clunch dressings adorn the doors and windows. It has a steeply pitched slate roof with shaped and pierced bargeboarding at the gable ends, although the original crested ridge tiles have been removed. The layout includes a single-storey hall with offices to the right, forming a cross-wing. The hall showcases paired gables with similar bargeboarding, Gothic windows with transoms and mullions, and three other windows, each with pointed arches and three lights. The cross-wing also has two gables with matching bargeboarding and two Gothic windows featuring tracery.
The school house is connected to the school by a wall with a pointed arch opening. It is similarly built of brick with a flint exterior, yellow gault brick quoins, and clunch dressings for the windows and doors. The school house has a steeply pitched slate roof that retains its original crested ridge tiles and features similar bargeboarding. It is two storeys tall, with a bargeboarded gable above a two-light window with Y-tracery in a two-centred head. On the ground floor, there is a canted bay with a hipped roof and traceried lights, one of which retains the original diamond leaded lights. The gable end includes a canted oriel window with three leaded lights, each featuring tracery. The school also retains the original register.
Local climate
Church of England Primary School School House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Church of England Primary School including playground area wall immediately to west
- 2 Church of England Primary School and Attached House
- 3 Former Church of England Primary School, including two school houses
- 4 Woodtop Primary School, with Forecourt Walls, Piers, Railings and Overthrow
- 5 Rivenhall Church of England Primary School School House
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings