Village School and Masters House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1995. Village hall. 4 related planning applications.
Village School and Masters House
- WRENN ID
- still-clay-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1995
- Type
- Village hall
- Address
- Village School and Masters House, Malthouse Lane, Chute, SP11 9EE
- OS grid reference
- SU 306 536
- Coordinates
- 51.28088, -1.56234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village School and Master's House, now functioning as a village hall, was built between 1857 and 1858 by William White. It is constructed from flint rubble with red brick dressings and features a plain tile roof with gabled ends and half-hipped gables. The building has brick lateral, axial, and gable-end stacks with set-offs and batters.
The layout includes three schoolrooms arranged at right angles to each other, with the master's house attached to the northeast. The design reflects the Gothic Domestic Revival style. The exterior consists of single-storey schoolrooms and a one-storey and attic master's house, characterized by asymmetrical gabled elevations.
On the south front, there is a projecting gable on the left with a tall pointed-arch window and short angle-buttresses. To the right, a gabled porch is supported by flanking weathered buttresses, leading to a gable with deep verges. Two tall pointed-arch windows are positioned to the right, separated by a buttress that rises into a small half-hipped gable topped with a wrought-iron finial.
The west side features a gable on the right with a tall pointed-arch window, while a large porch is located in the angle on the left, also supported by weathered buttresses. A gable set back on the left has a pointed-arch window with a sexfoil light.
On the east side, the master's house is on the right, showcasing two half-hipped dormers and windows with twin pointed-arch heads. A gable set back on the left includes a tall pointed-arch window and a porch in the angle, flanked by weathered buttresses that support a gable with herring-bone infilling and deep verges.
Inside, the schoolrooms feature arched-brace roofs, later suspended ceilings, and folding partitions.
Local climate
Village School and Masters House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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