The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1986. School.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- wild-threshold-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1986
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School House, 2, Chishill Road, Heydon
- OS grid reference
- TL 431 399
- Coordinates
- 52.03988, 0.08637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a building that originally served as a school and school house, now converted into a residential home. It features a dated plaque from 1846 on the porch gable. The structure is made of red brick with burnt brick headers and has steeply pitched slated roofs with corbelled parapet gables. The house has a two-storey cross-wing on the left side, while the main school room has been converted into a one-storey space with an attic.
At the junction of the two roofs, there is a chimney stack with four grouped octagonal shafts, each with moulded caps and bases. The porch on the left side includes octagonal stone buttresses with ogee caps and the dated plaque is set in a shaped gable. The entrance features a vertical panelled door within a four-centre arch.
The wing has two three-light iron lattice light casement windows, and the main range has two large transomed casement windows with chamfered reveals and a cambered arch, along with two 20th-century casement dormer windows. The building also has a brick plinth and a plain brick cornice.
Local climate
The Old 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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