School Buildings with Teacher's House Behind is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. School, house.
School Buildings with Teacher's House Behind
- WRENN ID
- waning-transept-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- School Buildings with Teacher's House Behind, High Street, Cowden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 464 402
- Coordinates
- 51.14308, 0.09206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building consists of school buildings with a teacher's house located behind, originally designed as three cottages in an L-shape, incorporating a 16th century or earlier framed structure. The two cottages that face the road have been converted into a single large school room, featuring lattice clerestorey windows and a large modern mullioned and transomed window on the eastern elevation. The ground floor is constructed of 19th century brick and includes two projecting 19th century tiled porches. The first floor showcases exposed 16th century restored framing with plaster infilling and a ridge tile roof. The eastern elevation has a modern gable end with exposed half-timbering and plaster infilling, while the base is made of 19th century brickwork. At the rear, there is a 16th century framed cottage with brick and exposed framing above, also with plaster infilling and a central ridge stack, along with a small projecting 19th century porch on the side. There are modern school buildings adjacent to the right-hand side.
Local climate
School Buildings with Teacher's House Behind receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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