The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- mired-pediment-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old School House, 38, St James Street, Castle Hedingham, CO9 3EW
- OS grid reference
- TL 786 355
- Coordinates
- 51.98981, 0.60115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a house with 18th century features, likely originating from an earlier period. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof. There are red brick chimney stacks on the left and right, with the right stack shared with No. 36. The eaves are adorned with a wooden modillion cornice, and there is a central moulded wood pentice board. The house has two storeys and features a three-window range of 18th century small paned vertically sliding sashes, with the windows to the left and right of the door consisting of two lights each. The entrance has a six-panelled door with a moulded surround and frieze, topped by a moulded pediment that includes dentils along the soffits and cornice.
Local climate
The Old 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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