School House is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
School House
- WRENN ID
- little-timber-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- School House, School Lane, Staple
- OS grid reference
- TR 271 566
- Coordinates
- 51.26369, 1.25515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School House is a 17th-century building constructed of red brick with a plain tiled roof. It is one storey high with an attic, featuring a hipped roof and gablets. The house has three gabled dormers and chimney stacks positioned to the right and clustered towards the centre left. To the right, there are two 20th-century oriel windows and a rib and stud door. An outshot is located at the right end, built in English bond with an end stack.
Local climate
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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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