The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1983. School, private house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-vault-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1983
- Type
- School, private house
- Address
- The Old School House, Brettenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 923 817
- Coordinates
- 52.39957, 0.8262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former school building that has been converted into a private house, constructed in 1872. It features a flint exterior with brick quoins and a tiled roof, designed in a T shape, with the Master's house at the top and the school room in the stem. The building is one storey high with an attic.
The entrance is through a square porch that has a doorway with a pointed segmental arch. To the left, the Master's house has a tall gable with brick tumbling on painted brick kneelers, and it includes one window on both the ground and attic floors. The school room has two casement windows, with the larger one set under a pointed brick arch within the gable, which also features tumbling and kneelers.
All arched windows are adorned with spandrels that have glazed tiles arranged in a diaper pattern. The main east gable, which also has tumbling and kneelers, is above a tall five-light arched window that illuminates the school room, with timber mullions rising to the arch. The building has a gabled roof with a brick eaves cornice and two stacks over the left wing.
Local climate
The Old School House 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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 — 2 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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