Old School and School House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. School, house.
Old School and School House
- WRENN ID
- salt-floor-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- Old School and School House, Station Road, Moreton
- OS grid reference
- SY 804 893
- Coordinates
- 50.70337, -2.27844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School and School House is a building that dates from the early 19th century. The Old Schoolroom features brick walls that are buttressed and a slate roof topped with a metal cowl at the ridge. It is a single-storey structure with five timber windows that have mullions and transoms, all fitted with diamond pattern cast iron lights. The School House, which is attached, has brick walls and a slate roof with brick stacks, and it stands two storeys tall. There is a brick porch with a slate roof that connects to the Schoolroom, along with a central doorway that has a flush panel door. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows, also with diamond pattern cast iron lights, and brick arches that feature stone keystones. The first floor has three similar windows. The front boundary is marked by a low brick wall with concrete posts and iron railings.
Local climate
Old School and School House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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