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

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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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