The Old School and Mount Pleasant is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. School, house. 1 related planning application.
The Old School and Mount Pleasant
- WRENN ID
- sheer-rubble-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- The Old School and Mount Pleasant, Cambridge Road, Thundridge, SG12 0SU
- OS grid reference
- TL 357 171
- Coordinates
- 51.83662, -0.03092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School and Mount Pleasant are two houses formed from a former school, dating to the later 19th century. The building is constructed of distinctive Hitch’s patent bricks, a buff colour, with a low-pitched slate roof. A stock brick rear extension is also present, with a slate roof.
The north facade features a symmetrical arrangement of three windows over two storeys, with a tall central chimney composed of four circular shafts, detailed with necking and capping in the Hitch bricks. A single-storey schoolroom and porch extends from the west end, also constructed with Hitch’s bricks and featuring slate roofs. The building incorporates new casement windows, which are considered a less desirable feature.
Hitch’s bricks, patented in 1828 by Caleb Hitch of Ware, are approximately 12 inches by 6 inches by 6 inches and feature an interlocking system to reduce mortar usage and increase structural strength. Their use was largely confined to the Ware district, and this building represents the finest surviving example of the various applications of Hitch's bricks in the area.
Local climate
The Old School and Mount Pleasant sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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