School House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1971. Schoolhouse. 2 related planning applications.

School House

WRENN ID
iron-corridor-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 1971
Type
Schoolhouse
Address
School House, Yattendon Lane, Yattendon, Thatcham, RG18 0UR
OS grid reference
SU 556 744
Coordinates
51.46673, -1.20071
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Schoolhouse built in 1891-1892 by Alfred Waterhouse. It is constructed of red brick with Bath stone dressings and features herringbone brickwork in the tympana of alternating brick and tile relieving arches above the windows. The building has a tiled roof, with the section to the right having a lower pitch. It has coped parapeted gable ends with footstones, and a parapet above the door, which is off-centre to the right. There is an end stack to the left and a stack behind the ridge that is off-centre to the right. To the left, there is a parapeted gabled semi-dormer with a three-light mullioned window. The building is one and a half storeys tall and has two ground floor six-light mullioned and transomed windows flanking a doorway that is off-centre to the right, which has a half-glazed door with a stone surround.

Local climate

School House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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