School House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House.
School House
- WRENN ID
- iron-rampart-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- School House, Payhembury
- OS grid reference
- ST 087 016
- Coordinates
- 50.80752, -3.29663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House is a former schoolmaster's house, likely built in 1851, and is contemporary with the adjacent school. It is constructed of local stone rubble, with the front featuring snecked grey limestone and sandstone ashlar windows. The building has stone rubble stacks with brick divided diagonal chimneyshafts and a slate roof. The house is oriented at right angles to the adjacent school, with its south-east end facing the street, but the entrance is from the schoolyard on the left (south-west) side. The main front room includes a lateral stack, and there are two rooms behind it with opposing lateral stacks. The building is two storeys high. The exterior is designed in the same Tudor Gothic style as the school, featuring stone-mullioned three-light windows with hoodmoulds on each floor. The roof is gable-ended. The doorway towards the front end of the left side now contains a plain 20th-century door and overlight, while the other windows are 19th and 20th-century casements. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
School House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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