School House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. A C19 Schoolhouse.
School House
- WRENN ID
- vacant-baluster-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1984
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- Address
- School House, Euston Road, Barnham
- OS grid reference
- TL 871 792
- Coordinates
- 52.37897, 0.74881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House is a former village school and schoolhouse, now a dwelling, dating from the mid 19th century. It is constructed of red brick, featuring rusticated white brick quoins and dressings, along with an ogee-moulded cornice. The roofs are covered with black glazed pantiles, and some sections retain crested ridge-tiles. The gables have pierced and fluted bargeboards.
The former school section, located to the west, is single-storey and has a T-shaped form, with a small centrally-placed wing that juts forward. It has two narrow windows on the south side and doors for schoolchildren on the east and west sides. A small wooden bell turret with a hipped slate roof sits atop the building. Each side of the wing features a small-paned sash window with a flat gauged arch for the school rooms. At the west end, there is a 5-sided canted bay added at a slightly later date, which includes three small-paned sash windows and a tented slate roof, constructed with matching materials.
To the east, attached to the school, is the former schoolhouse, which is two-storey and has a central chimney stack. The large plain red brick chimney shaft is accented with white brick rustication. It has two small-paned sash windows. On the east side, there is a single-storey extension built with matching materials, which now serves as the entry. The rear wall of the house is made of rubble flint.
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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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