Lakenham First School is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. School.
Lakenham First School
- WRENN ID
- grim-cornice-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- School
- Address
- Lakenham First School, Hospital Lane
- OS grid reference
- TG 233 072
- Coordinates
- 52.61721, 1.29833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lakenham First School, originally known as the Infants' School, was built in 1863 and is located on Hospital Lane. The building is constructed of yellow brick and features a hipped slate roof. It stands two stories tall and has a symmetrical façade with eleven first-floor windows. The central bay slightly projects and includes a double-leaf panelled door topped by a fanlight with glazing bars, all set within a recessed round-headed moulded and gauged brick arch.
The ground-floor windows are round-headed with glazing bars, although one is missing, and they are positioned under gauged brick arches linked by a moulded string course. The building has projecting hipped gable-fronted end wings. The first-floor windows are sashes with glazing bars, placed under flat gauged brick arches, and there is a plain sill band. The eaves overhang and are supported by paired brackets, while cast iron lion masks adorn the gutters. To the right, there is a three-bay wing in a similar style that is set back. Tablets flanking the main door provide information about the history of the foundation.
Local climate
Lakenham First School 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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