The School is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. School. 1 related planning application.
The School
- WRENN ID
- waiting-chancel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- School
- Address
- The School, the Green, Burrough Green, CB8 9NH
- OS grid reference
- TL 637 555
- Coordinates
- 52.1738, 0.39347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School is a building dated 1714, as indicated by a plaster panel in the gable wall, which is partly covered by an extension added in 1877 when it became the National School. A cross-wing was built around 1920 and features a plaque commemorating the years 1914-1919. The structure is made of clunch with some limestone repairs and has red brick gable walls, topped with a steeply pitched slate roof.
The building has a symmetrical facade with one storey and a central doorway that is sealed but retains its original moulded architrave, key block, and cornice. Above the doorway, there are two round arch niches: one on the left featuring a girl with the inscription 'TRAIN UP A CHILD', and one on the right depicting a boy with the inscription 'NAKED AND YE CLOTHED ME'. The facade also includes two large round arched hung sash windows that are shaped to arch, rusticated quoins, and a moulded cornice. The original school was funded by the will of Samuel Richardson.
Local climate
The School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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