Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. House.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-joist-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old School House, Pedlars Lane, Therfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 334 371
- Coordinates
- 52.01674, -0.05634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a house that was formerly the dwelling of a school master. It has origins dating from the early to mid 17th century and was altered and refaced in the early 19th century. The building was originally timber framed and is now constructed of red brick with white brick dressings, topped with a tiled roof. It consists of two cells and is one storey high with an attic.
The entrance is recessed to the left of the centre and features a later weatherboarded porch. There are small pane horizontal sliding sash windows flanking the entrance, which are recessed and have slightly cambered white brick heads, though they are unevenly spaced. Above the entrance and the right window, there are gabled dormers that also contain small horizontal sliding sashes. The left end has an extruded stack made of 17th-century brick with tumbled-in offsets, while a 19th-century stack is located at the right end of the ridge. The right gable end is roughcast. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included for its group value and historic interest as a village school house from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Local climate
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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
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