The School House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1960. A C18 School, former shop. 2 related planning applications.
The School House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-pediment-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1960
- Type
- School, former shop
- Address
- The School House, Church Street, Litcham, PE32 2NS
- OS grid reference
- TF 887 175
- Coordinates
- 52.72307, 0.79318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House is a former shop and dwelling, now part of a school, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of brick, with some gault brick and flint, and features pantiled roofs. The building has two storeys with an attic and seven bays of sash windows that include glazing bars. The ground floor windows are beneath gault brick skewback arches, while the first floor has renewed red brick skewback arches. Two ground floor windows on the north side have been recently replaced to substitute a former shop front. The building showcases rusticated quoins made of flint pebbles, creating a vermiculated effect. The front door, which is raised and fielded panelled, is located off-centre in the second bay from the south and is framed by a door case with engaged Corinthian columns that support a pediment adorned with modillions. There is an off-centre axial stack and a gable-end stack. The south gable end is constructed of galletted flint with brick tumbling-in.
Local climate
The School House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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