The Church Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. Church hall, former school. 2 related planning applications.
The Church Rooms
- WRENN ID
- high-span-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1973
- Type
- Church hall, former school
- Address
- The Church Rooms, Camping Land, Swaffham, PE37 7RB
- OS grid reference
- TF 821 088
- Coordinates
- 52.64665, 0.69122
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church Rooms, formerly known as Albert Terrace and the Swaffham National School, is a church hall built in 1838 by William Donthorn. The building features a cut flint exterior with brick dressings and slate roofs. It is two storeys high and has a five-window range on the south front, with a central gable above a four-light 20th-century timber window. The other windows consist of top- and bottom-hung casements with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. The roof is gabled.
The east entrance is divided into two distinct parts. The southern part has two stepped buttresses and a tall arched four-light Perpendicular window that spans both storeys. Above this window is a parapet with a shouldered gable that bears the inscription: "Swaffham National School 1838." The northern part features a 20th-century glazed entrance door with a wide overlight containing six by three glazing bars, and a large three-light casement window above. The roof is also gabled. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Church Rooms sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2023
- 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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