The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1976. School house. 9 related planning applications.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- noble-string-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1976
- Type
- School house
- Address
- The Old School House, Chitty Lane, Chislet, CT3 4EA
- OS grid reference
- TR 230 647
- Coordinates
- 51.33837, 1.2012
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a timber-framed building from the 17th century or earlier, located on Chitty Lane in Marshside. It has one storey and attics, with a weatherboarded exterior. The roof is tiled and hipped on one side, featuring two hipped dormers. The building has two casement windows and a simple doorcase.
Local climate
The Old School House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 9 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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