Palmer's Cottage the Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Former school, house. 3 related planning applications.
Palmer's Cottage the Old School
- WRENN ID
- slow-sentry-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Former school, house
- Address
- Palmer's Cottage the Old School, High Street, Sydling St. Nicholas, DT2 9PB
- OS grid reference
- SY 631 994
- Coordinates
- 50.79322, -2.52379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Palmer's Cottage, formerly the Old School, is a building from the 18th century that has been converted into a private house with an attached cottage. The structure features rubble-stone and chalk-block walls that are rendered and painted white for Palmer's Cottage. The roof is thatched, gabled on the left side and hipped on the right. There are brick stacks located at the left gable and at the center of the ridge, and the building is 1½ storeys high. It has a total of five windows, arranged as two on one side and three on the other, with two-light wood casements that include glazing bars, dating from the 20th century. The entrances include a 20th-century door for the Old School located at the right end under a pentice roof, a stable door on the front elevation also from the 20th century, and a central plank door for Palmer's Cottage, which is also from the 20th century. A thatch porch canopy supported by wooden posts is present at the entrance.
Local climate
Palmer's Cottage the Old School receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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