Ada Hart Room and the Abbey Schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1972. School, office.

Ada Hart Room and the Abbey Schoolroom

WRENN ID
still-alcove-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1972
Type
School, office
Address
Ada Hart Room and the Abbey Schoolroom, Church Street, Wymondham
OS grid reference
TG 107 015
Coordinates
52.57111, 1.10843
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Ada Hart Room and The Abbey Schoolroom, originally a Sunday School and office, was built in 1812. It is constructed of brick and features a roof made of black glazed pantiles. The building has a central hipped mass that is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with single hipped entrance bays on the east and west that are set back from the main wall planes. The north front facing the street has three late 20th-century top-hung casements on each floor of the central block, all under segmental arches. There is a pedestrian entrance in the west extension bay and a gabled porch entrance in the corresponding eastern bay. The eaves have a soffit detail. The south elevation also has three casements on each floor of the central block, some of which are partly from the 20th century. A datestone on the first floor indicates that it was established as a Sunday School in 1812.

Inside, there is a timber chimneypiece in the west wall of the main block with a shouldered surround. A stick baluster staircase rises in the west extension bay to the first floor, where there is a similar chimneypiece and a king post roof.

Local climate

Ada Hart Room and the Abbey Schoolroom 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, 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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