Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Community hall. 3 related planning applications.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- other-spire-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1985
- Type
- Community hall
- Address
- Old School House, 5, Shalford Road, Rayne, CM77 6DL
- OS grid reference
- TL 731 227
- Coordinates
- 51.87665, 0.51347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House, originally a maltings and now serving as a Community Hall, is likely from the 18th century. The building was purchased by the Church for use as a school in 1844. It features a timber frame with weatherboarding and has a red plain tiled roof adorned with ornate ridge tiles. A red brick chimney stack is located on the left side. The structure is two storeys high and has a three-window range with small paned vertical and horizontal sliding sashes. There are three vertically boarded doors, two of which are on the right and accessed by four steps with curved iron handrails. Pentice boards are present beside the right and left doors. Internally, heavy chamfered bridging joists are visible.
Local climate
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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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