Former School is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 2004. School. 2 related planning applications.
Former School
- WRENN ID
- stark-casement-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 2004
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former School, Sandford Orcas Road, DT9 4SA
- OS grid reference
- ST 623 207
- Coordinates
- 50.98536, -2.53837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former school and master's house in Sandford Orcas was built in 1859. It is constructed of stone rubble with Ham stone dressings and features a steeply-pitched clay scalloped tile roof. The gable ends have stone coping, kneelers, and gableted apexes, with a chimney stack on the left gable end that has a rebuilt brick shaft.
The building has a plan where the schoolroom is on the right and the master's house is in a crosswing on the left. It is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and consists of two storeys and an attic. The master's house, located in the gabled crosswing, has a blind ground floor and a first floor with a three-light window that has a hoodmould, along with a two-light attic window above featuring a trefoil ventilator in the gable apex. The single-storey schoolroom on the right has two two-light windows, all of which have moulded stone frames with hoodmoulds. The right-hand return gable end showcases a large four-light cross-mullion-transom window with a hoodmould and a quatrefoil ventilator in the gable above.
This building is a good example of a small parish school and master's house in the Tudor Gothic style. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former School receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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