Primary School and Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. Primary school, schoolhouse.
Primary School and Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- tangled-vestry-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- Primary school, schoolhouse
- Address
- Primary School and Schoolhouse, Brockley Road, Whepstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 834 582
- Coordinates
- 52.19168, 0.68191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Primary School and Schoolhouse, built in 1874, is a two-storey building with an asymmetrical design. It is constructed of red brick, featuring gault brick and limestone dressings, along with parapet gables that have limestone kneelers. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and include shaped and pierced ridge tiles, as well as a gabled casement dormer with half-timbering. The windows have limestone lintels, with some featuring gault brick relieving arches and wooden casements. The entrance doorways are arched and hood-moulded in gault brick, with an attached limestone shaft that has leaf-carving between them. The doors are boarded and adorned with decorative ironwork. Additionally, there is a pyramid-roofed turret above the school-room entrance.
Local climate
Primary School and Schoolhouse 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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