The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. A 19th century Schoolhouse.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- white-flue-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- The Old School House, Church Hill, Pakenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 928 671
- Coordinates
- 52.26889, 0.82541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a National School and schoolhouse, now used as a residence. It was built in 1842 and extended in 1872. The building is single storey and has an irregular shape. The older part is constructed of black knapped flint with red brick dressings. The street-facing side features a double Roman tiled roof with two gables. Below each gable, there are canted bay windows topped with pitched roofs covered in fishscale tiles. A central gabled porch is also present. On the south side, the schoolroom windows remain, consisting of triple full-height small-paned sashes, along with the original school door. The rear extension is made of red brick and includes two bands of blue headers across the front, a plaintiled roof, and large-paned sash windows with cambered heads.
Local climate
The Old School House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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