The School House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. School, house. 5 related planning applications.

The School House

WRENN ID
under-sill-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1988
Type
School, house
Address
The School House, St. Ervan, PL27 7TA
OS grid reference
SW 892 702
Coordinates
50.49366, -4.97321
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The School House is a building that originally served as a school and the school master's residence, constructed in 1856. It is made of local slate rubble and features a slurried scantle slate roof with gabled ends. The building has a slate rubble axial stack at the junction of its two ranges. The layout includes the main schoolroom on the right, which was likely an open hall, and the school master's house in a short cross-wing on the left, complete with a porch at the front where the two sections meet. In the late 20th century, the building was converted into a private house, and a floor was added to the open hall of the schoolroom.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical window arrangement of 1:3. The main schoolroom range has three tall window openings, each fitted with late 20th-century casements that include glazing bars. The former school master's house on the left features two-light casements with glazing bars in original segmental arched openings on both floors of the gable end. There is a projecting single-storey stone rubble gable porch with a pointed arch doorway and a grouted scantle slate roof at the angle to the right. At the center of the main range, there is a wooden bellcot with a square plan, featuring wooden louvered sides and a tiled pyramidal roof. The rear elevation and interior were not inspected.

Local climate

The School House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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