Village school and school house is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1979. A C19 School and school house. 2 related planning applications.
Village school and school house
- WRENN ID
- steep-solder-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1979
- Type
- School and school house
- Address
- Village school and school house, Church Hill, High Halden, TN26 3JB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 901 371
- Coordinates
- 51.10248, 0.71425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The village school and school house in High Halden was built in 1868 and designed by the architect G.E. Street. This single-storey building is constructed of red brick and features a high gabled roof covered with curved tiles. It has a clustered brick chimneystack and a porch leading to the schoolroom, which includes a timber-framed gable. The windows and door are rectangular, with mullions, transoms, and glazing bars. The school house also has a timber-framed gable and a dormer at the rear.
Local climate
Village school and school house 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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