Schools Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. Reading room facade.
Schools Gateway
- WRENN ID
- idle-portal-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- Reading room facade
- Address
- Schools Gateway, Long Green, Wortham
- OS grid reference
- TM 083 771
- Coordinates
- 52.35269, 1.05728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Schools Gateway is a former village Reading Room built in 1870. It features a facade made of red brick with ashlar dressings, designed in a classical style. The building has three arched and pedimented bays, with a taller central arch that includes an archivolt with a keystone and impost capitals. The smaller flanking arches have panels inscribed with the words "FAITH" and "HOPE." The facade is supported by four Roman Doric columns on high bases, and the entablature carries pediments, with the central one being larger and having a damaged panel that was formerly inscribed with the word "CHARITY." At the ends of the building, there are consoles supporting the coping. The rear of the building features chamfered relieving arches over the outer arches, key blocked ashlar at the center, and two two-stage buttresses.
Local climate
Schools Gateway 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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