The Strike School is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. School.
The Strike School
- WRENN ID
- pale-rampart-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Strike School, Church Green, Burston and Shimpling
- OS grid reference
- TM 136 831
- Coordinates
- 52.40467, 1.13972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Strike School, built in 1917, is a small single-storey rendered building located in Burston Church Green. It was constructed through public subscription to allow the village school teachers to continue educating local children after they were dismissed in 1914 for supporting a farm workers strike. The front wall is made of ashlar, featuring stones that have the names of the subscribers inscribed on them. The building has three bays, with a central doorway that has double doors and large casement windows on either side. There is a continuous moulded impost and lintels that form a frieze beneath the eaves, which is inscribed with "Burston 19 Strike 17 School." The roof is tiled with gabled ends, and there is a brick chimney stack located at the right-hand front corner. The school is included in the heritage register for its social historical interest.
Local climate
The Strike School sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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