Church of England School and School House of St Peter and St Paul Including Forecourt Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. School, house.

Church of England School and School House of St Peter and St Paul Including Forecourt Wall

WRENN ID
white-banister-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1984
Type
School, house
Address
Church of England School and School House of St Peter and St Paul Including Forecourt Wall, the Street, Foxearth
OS grid reference
TL 835 446
Coordinates
52.06991, 0.67634
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of England School and School House of St Peter and St Paul, including the forecourt wall, is a 19th-century building with a stone-dressed lint clad exterior. It features an asymmetrical design with a red tiled roof comprising two ranges. The right range has two forward gabled, two-storey crosswings, and pierced ridge tiles. The left single-storey range has stone parapet verges.

A gabled porch on the left has a two-centred, two-order, chamfered arch opening with shafts that have foliate and animal capitals. The vertically boarded door beneath a two-centred arched head is topped with a cross at the gable apex. A stone-dressed buttress is located on the left return. To the right of the porch, there are two stone five-light windows with Gothic heads, accompanied by a buttress.

The central crosswing features steps leading to a two-centred arch doorway with a vertically boarded door adorned with ornate iron hinges. Above the transom windows on the ground floor is a segmental pointed arch, while the first floor has a stone two-light window with cusping and a quatrefoil above. A panelled, pointed head door is situated between the crosswings.

The right crosswing includes a gargoyle on the corbels, three stone ogee lights with cusping on the ground floor, and two matching lights on the first floor with a roundel above. Moulded rainwater heads are present, and there are two flint and stone-dressed chimney stacks, with the front stack featuring gargoyles and mouldings, while the rear is very worn. Additionally, there is a flint wall with moulded stone capping at the front of the building.

Local climate

Church of England School and School House of St Peter and St Paul Including Forecourt Wall 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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