School House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. House. 2 related planning applications.

School House

WRENN ID
quartered-window-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1993
Type
House
Address
School House, Harberton, TQ9 7SZ
OS grid reference
SX 783 562
Coordinates
50.39332, -3.71215
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The School House is a house, originally built as the schoolmaster's residence for the adjacent school, The Old School. It dates from 1849. The walls are slate rubble with granite dressings, topped by a steeply pitched asbestos slate roof with cross-gables on the left and right sides, featuring ornate pierced bargeboards. Rendered chimney stacks are located on the side walls. The house is built in a Tudor style.

The plan consists of two main front rooms, with a central lobby entrance flanked by a porch, and service rooms located in a rear outshut. The house is two storeys with an attic. The front elevation is symmetrical, with two windows on each side. A steeply pitched gabled porch with ornate pierced bargeboards sits centrally, incorporating a chamfered four-centred arch doorway with a glazed door. The ground and first floors have chamfered granite mullion windows with three lights, topped with cement weathered lintels. Single-light attic windows are set into each gable. A rear outshut was extended and heightened in the 20th century. The interior remains uninspected. According to White’s Directory of 1878, the house was given for the schoolmaster's use in 1849 by Richard Browne Esq of Englebourne.

Local climate

School House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. The Old School Grade II 21 m
  2. Habertonford War Memorial Grade II 47 m
  3. Church of St Peter Grade II 50 m
  4. Ford House Grade II 52 m
  5. The Retreat Grade II 60 m
  6. K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Post Office Grade II 65 m
  7. Mill Lead Bridge North of Harbertonford Bridge Grade II 65 m
  8. May Cottage the Cottage Grade II 73 m
  9. Steps Cottages Grade II 76 m
  10. Harbertonford Bridge Grade II 80 m