Old School House, Including Gate and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1961. School. 2 related planning applications.
Old School House, Including Gate and Railings
- WRENN ID
- over-oriel-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1961
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old School House, Including Gate and Railings, Church Street, Coltishall, NR12 7DJ
- OS grid reference
- TG 270 197
- Coordinates
- 52.72803, 1.36166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House, including the gate and railings, is a former Free School and master's house built around 1720. It is constructed of red brick and covered with 'French' pantiles. The building has two storeys and attics, with a single-storey outshut at the rear. The facade features five bays, with a central raised and fielded six-panel door topped by a fanlight. The ground floor has 19th-century sash windows in their original openings, each with gauged brick arches. There is a rendered plinth and a brick platband at the first-floor level, along with moulded timber eaves. The gables have parapets with moulded brick kneelers and brick tumbling in, and there are gable stacks. Three dormers with two-light casement windows, featuring wrought iron lights, are present; the outer dormers have pedimented gables, while the central dormer has a semi-circular head, all with moulded timber verges. The interior dates mainly from around 1875, with most doors being early 18th-century raised and fielded two-panel types. A dining room fireplace, relocated from the first floor in the late 20th century, has a lugged timber surround, a pulvinated frieze, and a dentilled cornice, possibly from around 1740. The roof features staggered butt purlins with tapered tenons. The late 19th-century forecourt railings are set on a dwarf brick wall, with cast iron columnar gate posts topped with finials and a wrought iron gate with an overthrow. The building was originally constructed by the parish for the education of ten poor children as a result of "Chapman's Charity" established in 1718 and was later known as the endowed school. It was converted into a schoolmaster's house around 1875 when it was amalgamated with the nearby National School.
Local climate
Old School House, Including Gate and Railings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 6 transactions since 2002
- 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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