School House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. House.
School House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-hammer-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- School House, Ipswich Road, Yaxley
- OS grid reference
- TM 120 739
- Coordinates
- 52.32263, 1.11015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House, originally built around 1600 and later converted into two dwellings and a private school, features a timber frame with plastered walls and a black glazed pantiled roof. The building is L-shaped, with an early three-cell range on the left and a 19th-century range at the front. It stands two storeys high, with a central entrance that has an open gabled porch. Flanking the entrance are three-light timber and metal glazing bar casements on both the ground and first floors, which also have hoodboards, a plinth, and boxed eaves.
At the right end, there is an internal cross axial ridge stack and pentice boards. The roof is hipped to the left over the early bays, which include a rear entrance featuring a half-glazed and half-panelled door, along with mixed two and three-light casements and a central ridge stack. The rear gable end has an external stack with offsets and a pantiled oven outshut. A 20th-century lean-to has been added behind the early range.
Inside, the building showcases close studding, chamfered storey posts, and mid-rail, as well as a stop-chamfered binding beam. The first floor displays arched bracing in the original end walls and from jowled posts to cambered tie beams.
Local climate
School House 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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