The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Schoolmaster's house.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- fossil-column-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Schoolmaster's house
- Address
- The Old School House, the Street, Westleton
- OS grid reference
- TM 440 690
- Coordinates
- 52.26561, 1.57551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a schoolmaster's house built in 1842. It features a construction of small flint pebbles with pale yellow brick dressings and a slated roof. The building has two-storey wings that form an L-shaped plan, with a single-storey flat-roofed brick addition on the inside of the 'L'.
On the north side, there is a three-window range with casement windows set under segmental arches, and blank panels to the right. The central doorway has a boarded door. The gable ends include paired semi-circular headed casement windows on the ground floor, while the single-storey section has a semi-circular headed boarded door. Each wing has an external stack featuring a single narrow semi-circular headed blank arch, a moulded brick base, and twin closely spaced square flues that unite at the top.
Local climate
The Old School House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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