The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the The Broads Authority local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. House.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-corner-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- The Broads Authority
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old School House, Church Lane, Reedham, Broadland
- OS grid reference
- TG 426 025
- Coordinates
- 52.56638, 1.57972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former school house that has been converted into a private dwelling. It dates from the early 19th century and is built of colourwashed brick with a slate roof. The building is one storey high and features a symmetrical facade with two five-light casement windows that have ovolo mullions and pediments above the window openings.
At the center, there is a projecting porch with a segmental-headed door set in a square opening, which has decorative spandrels. The door is framed by a moulded and plastered surround, complete with key and impost blocks, and there is a pediment above the door opening with a recessed stone panel above it. On either side of the porch, there are one-light windows with drip moulds and chamfered reveals.
The gables are parapeted and coped, featuring shaped designs with octagonal finials. There are internal gable chimney stacks with octagonal brick shafts, with two on the north side and one on the south. The eaves are decorated with dogtooth brickwork. There are lean-to extensions on the east side, which include some 20th-century casement windows. The building is included for its group value with the nearby church of St. John the Baptist.
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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