School House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. School, masters house. 3 related planning applications.

School House

WRENN ID
sacred-wicket-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
Country
England
Type
School, masters house
Address
School House, Church Hill, Finedon, NN9 5NR
OS grid reference
SP 912 720
Coordinates
52.33861, -0.66255
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

School House, originally a boys school and masters house, is now a private residence. It features datestones from 1595 and 1760. The building is constructed of squared coursed ironstone with a slate roof and has an L-shaped plan. It is two storeys tall, with part of it having an attic. The main front, which faces the road, has a three-window range at the ground floor, consisting of two- and three-light stone-mullioned windows with leaded lights. To the left, there is a gabled cross wing dating from around 1595, which has a 19th-century plank door to the right, topped with a four-centred moulded stone head. The two-window range to the right is of a different construction. The building features ashlar gable parapets and kneelers, with ironstone stacks at the gable ends of the cross wing and ashlar stacks at the ridge and end of the right range. A single-storey extension on the far right has a datestone from 1760 in a covered way. The pear elevation facing the churchyard is similar, with three- and four-light stone-mullion windows in the cross wing. There is a datestone from 1595 on the return wall and a Royal coat of arms in the gable with the initials E.R. Inside, there are some chamfered ceiling beams. The building was endowed as a boys school in 1595 by Richard Walker and was closed as a school in 1961.

Local climate

School House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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