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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 2002
- 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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