Helmingham Parish School and Masters House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1995. School. 7 related planning applications.
Helmingham Parish School and Masters House
- WRENN ID
- last-bronze-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1995
- Type
- School
- Address
- Helmingham Parish School and Masters House, IP14 6EX
- OS grid reference
- TM 192 590
- Coordinates
- 52.18625, 1.20559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Helmingham Parish School and Master's House is a parish school built in 1853 and later in the 19th century. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond and features pantiled roofs, gables, and gable-facing dormers with decorative vergeboards. The building has a roughly U-shaped plan and consists of one and two storeys. The double gable-facing wings on the left side, which are part of an earlier build, served as the master's house. Entrances are located between the gables and in a porch on the left return, which also has a chimneypiece at the rear. Each gabled range includes a shallow canted bay, and the flat-arched windows are fitted with leaded casement lights. The hall range at the rear has six windows, is half dormered, and is part of a later building with wooden sash glazing. There is a broad facing-gable range to the right, with stacks located to the right of the master's lodge and a tall octagonal stack at the right inside corner. A smaller facing gable wing is present on the right return. The interior of the hall features glazed trusses. The building is listed for its group value with St John's Row to the north.
Local climate
Helmingham Parish School and Masters House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
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