School House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. Detached house.
School House
- WRENN ID
- secret-sentry-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1960
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- School House, Downton
- OS grid reference
- SU 176 240
- Coordinates
- 51.01524, -1.74955
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School House is a detached house built in the 18th century, marked by the date TC/1692 on a stone tablet above the door. It features English bond brick construction with a tiled roof and gable-end brick stacks that have toothing. The building is two stories high with two windows. A central 20th-century door is flanked by two 3-light latticed leaded casements, both topped with flat arches. There is a three-brick plat band at the first floor, which also has two 3-light latticed leaded casements. The roof includes two hipped dormers with 2-light latticed casements and has a coped verge with kneelers on the right side.
To the left, there is a 19th-century extension built in English bond with vitrified headers and one 3-light casement. On the right, an integral single-storey extension features a hipped roof and a 2-light casement. Inside, the house has a chamfered ceiling beam and joists with step and concave stops, an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel, planked doors, and a 2-bay roof. A school was established here in 1784 thanks to a £100 endowment from Emma Noyes.
Local climate
School House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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