Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-jamb-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old School House, the Cross, Okeford Fitzpaine, DT11 0RF
- OS grid reference
- ST 806 109
- Coordinates
- 50.8974, -2.2768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a house dated 1837, constructed of coursed rubble with a slate roof featuring gable ends and an end stone stack. It has rubble and brick quoins and is two storeys high with a three-window range. The ground floor includes a wooden mullioned and transomed window alongside a 19th-century sash window, both of which have glazing bars. On the upper floor, there is a canted oriel window flanked by two-light casements that have horizontal glazing bars. The building is marked by a datestone that reads "CRH 1837".
Local climate
Old School House 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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