The Primary School and the Old Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. School, house.
The Primary School and the Old Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-eave-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- The Primary School and the Old Schoolhouse, Brookside, Moulton
- OS grid reference
- TL 698 642
- Coordinates
- 52.25033, 0.48634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Primary School and The Old Schoolhouse is a house that was formerly a school and schoolhouse, marked "Rectory School 1849" on a tablet. It is designed in the Gothick style and consists of one storey, with the schoolhouse also having one storey and attics. The building is constructed of knapped flint with gault brick dressings. It features parapet gables with copings, carved kneelers, and octagonal finials made of limestone. The roofs are covered in fishscale slates with decorative ridge tiles, and there are hipped slated casement dormers.
There is a group of three circular chimneys that have patterning in carved gault brick and moulded rendered octagonal bases. The large schoolroom windows are arched and have limestone hoodmoulds along with curved glazing bars. Other windows on the building have hoodmoulds, splayed brick reveals, and leaded casements. The entrance porch is a one-storey structure with a parapet gable and a slated roof, featuring a hood-moulded arched doorway and a battened door with an arched fanlight.
Local climate
The Primary School and the Old Schoolhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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