School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. School house. 1 related planning application.

School Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
Country
England
Type
School house
Address
School Cottage, Compton Dando, BS31 2SJ
OS grid reference
ST 634 670
Coordinates
51.40147, -2.52614
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

School Cottage is a former school house, now a private residence, dating from around 1840. It is constructed of rubble with freestone dressings and features a pantiled roof. The building is single storey with attics in dormer gables. It has two 2-light casement windows with chamfered mullions and surrounds, set under relieving arches, and decorated with lattice pattern glazing. There is a projecting gabled porch that includes a 20th-century door. The adjacent Village Hall was formerly the school room.

Local climate

School Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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