The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. School, house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- kindled-belfry-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- The Old School, Woolland, DT11 0EP
- OS grid reference
- ST 776 069
- Coordinates
- 50.86161, -2.31887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a building dating from around 1850, originally constructed as a school and now serving as a house. It features squared, coursed rubble walls and a gable-ended roof made of shaped tiles with stone copings. Designed in a 'Tudor' style, it has a gabled cross-wing on the left side. The building is a single storey with an attic and has a four-window range.
On the ground floor to the left, there is a canted bay with a stone mullioned window. Above the gable, there is a two-light stone mullioned window. The next bay contains a door topped with a four-centred head, above which is a jettied dormer featuring a two-light mullioned window with a label. To the right, there are a two-light mullioned window and a single light window, both of which have returned labels. The windows are adorned with diamond pattern leaded-lights.
Local climate
The Old School receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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