Library the School House is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. Library, school house. 2 related planning applications.

Library the School House

WRENN ID
haunted-tracery-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 August 1952
Type
Library, school house
Address
Library the School House, Basingstoke Road, Shinfield, RG7 1AJ
OS grid reference
SU 714 666
Coordinates
51.3947, -0.97403
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The School House, now a library and house, was built in 1890. Constructed of grey brick with orange brick detailing, including header patterns and banding, it features quoins and window dressings. The building has a tiled gabled roof and a rectangular plan with two gables of varying sizes facing the road, and a further cross gable to the right. It is one and a half storeys in height, with a brick chimney on the ridge to the right of centre, featuring a moulded dentil head and a clay pot. Windows have rubbed brick semi-circular heads, and a moulded brick string runs at the upper cill level on the two right-hand gables. Carved bargeboards with long dropped finials and carved bosses adorn the gables. The windows are small-paned casements, and there's a planked entrance door within a recessed opening with a semi-circular brick head, leading to a closed porch incorporated into the projecting gable to the right of centre. An inscription above the door reads "F.W.A. 1890" across two panels, with a terracotta panel in between displaying a swan’s head flanked by two feathers.

Local climate

Library the School House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • Sale history — 11 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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