School and Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. School, schoolhouse.
School and Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- stark-postern-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- School, schoolhouse
- Address
- School and Schoolhouse, Compton Abbas
- OS grid reference
- ST 868 185
- Coordinates
- 50.96579, -2.18794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The school and schoolhouse, now serving as the village hall, was built in 1849. It features coursed, squared rubble with a tiled, gable-ended roof, complemented by stone copings and shaped kneelers. A two-staged ashlar stack with moulded caps rises from the west eaves of the schoolroom, along with other irregularly placed brick stacks. The house forms a cross-wing to the schoolroom, which has a porch in the re-entrant angle. The schoolroom is a single storey with three bays, and it includes a square-headed stone mullioned window. The gable facing the road has a stone window with a 4-centred head and plain mullions. The porch doorway features a moulded 4-centred head and an original ribbed door.
Local climate
School and Schoolhouse 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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