Beech House is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1968. Former school house.

Beech House

WRENN ID
blind-spire-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Broadland
Constituency
Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 December 1968
Type
Former school house
Address
Beech House, Church Road, Blofield
OS grid reference
TG 334 092
Coordinates
52.63077, 1.44868
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Beech House is a former schoolmaster's house and schoolroom dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a pantiled roof. The building has an L-shaped plan with 2½ storeys, including a single-storey wing to the west and an 18th-century extension to the north. The principal facade facing the road has three windows, while the schoolroom attached to the west has two windows.

The rear wing was originally designed with one window, marked by a rusticated quoin and a former end stack, which is now located inside the later rear wing that has three windows. The early 18th-century section includes 20th-century replacement cross windows and original 'Y' traceried Gothick windows with a central wrought iron light and lead glazing situated at ground floor level in the gable walls. The east attic gable features a two-light casement window with wrought iron lights.

The schoolroom has brick corbeleaves, and there are platbands at the attic floor level on the gables. The rear wing has a central 20th-century door and doorcase, along with replacement cross windows. The building displays segmental brick arches with key blocks, a brick and flint plinth, a first-floor level platband, brick dentil eaves, and parapet gables with brick kneelers and end stacks.

Local climate

Beech House 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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