Fairfield Preparatory School is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House, school. 2 related planning applications.
Fairfield Preparatory School
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-lantern-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, school
- Address
- Fairfield Preparatory School, 6, North Entrance, Saxmundham, IP17 1AY
- OS grid reference
- TM 385 634
- Coordinates
- 52.21737, 1.4907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairfield Preparatory School, now a school, was originally built in the early 19th century, with a porch added in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of gault brick with slate hipped roofs and a brick stack.
The main facade is a two-storey, five-window front, with a recessed two-storey section to the right. The central bay projects forward and features a single-storey closed porch with a repurposed six-panel door. Above the door is the original fanlight. The windows are 8/8 unhorned sashes with gauged skewback arches. A single bay to the right has an elliptical carriage arch on the ground floor and an 8/8 unhorned sash above. The rear of the building features a two-storey, two-bay section with a glazed cupola on the roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Fairfield Preparatory School 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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