School House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. House.
School House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- School House, the Green, High Ham
- OS grid reference
- ST 425 310
- Coordinates
- 51.0759, -2.82114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School House is a detached house built in 1570 and later. It is constructed from local lias stone that is both rough and squared, with Hal stone dressings, and features a clay pantiled roof between roped gables and brick end chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three side bays. Bays one and two contain three-light hollow chamfer mullioned windows, with a square label above the lower bay one window. Bay three features ovolo-mould mullioned windows, with three lights above and four lights below, the latter also having a label. All windows have G20 steel casement inserts. The lower bay two has a two-light window and a 20th-century doorway to the right, all under a label, which includes an 18th-century style 12-panel door with a glazed light and sidelights. The lintel over the door is incised with "The Old School House 1598-1937."
There is a single-storey extension attached to the west gable and a flat-roofed extension on the north side. The interior has been much altered, but it features a plaque that was formerly above the front door and is now set over the west gable fireplace. The plaque reads "VT PIASIT, STVDIIS Q. VACET GENEROSA IVVENTS/ HANC ADRIANUS.SCHAELL. SUSTINETAERE/SCHOLAM 1598." Additionally, there are some chamfered cross-beams and a circular stone stair located in the north-west corner against the fireplace. The building was constructed by the Rector appointed in 1570, as his churchwardens could neither read nor write. Srhaell was previously a tutor to Lord Grey's children.
Local climate
School House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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