An Old School Building at Foster's School is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. School.
An Old School Building at Foster's School
- WRENN ID
- mired-porch-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- School
- Address
- An Old School Building at Foster's School, Hound Street, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 640 167
- Coordinates
- 50.94943, -2.5134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School Building at Foster's School, dating from 1874, features two parallel ranges with stone slate roofs and rough ashlar fronts. It is one and two storeys high. The north wall has a central gabled projection with a rectangular window of four lights that has cusped heads. In the west gable end of the north range, there are two two-light mullioned windows above and one to the left below, along with a doorway with a fanlight to the right. The west gable end of the south range has a rectangular window of four lights with cusped heads. The south wall includes a date plaque from 1874 above a rectangular four-light mullioned window in a central gabled projection, with small three-light windows on either side.
Local climate
An Old School Building at Foster's School receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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