The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1958. School house. 5 related planning applications.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- worn-wall-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1958
- Type
- School house
- Address
- The Old School House, Boxford Lane, CO10 5JT
- OS grid reference
- TL 961 403
- Coordinates
- 52.02647, 0.85759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a timber-framed and plastered building dating from the 16th to 17th centuries. It features a cross wing extending from the south-west end. The main block of the building has two storeys and attics, with a sub basement level. Modern casement windows are fitted, along with a gabled porch. The gable of the cross wing displays a carved bressumer. The roof is tiled, topped by a ridge chimney stack with a sawtooth shaft and hexagonal ends on a rectangular moulded and castellated base. A single sloping-roofed dormer is present on the front elevation.
Local climate
The Old School House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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