Old School House, Milton Abbas is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. School house. 2 related planning applications.

Old School House, Milton Abbas

WRENN ID
twisted-panel-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1985
Type
School house
Address
Old School House, Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BL
OS grid reference
ST 808 019
Coordinates
50.81697, -2.27343
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old School House in Milton Abbas is a former school house dating from the mid-19th century. It features flint walls with some brick banding and dressings, topped by a tiled mansard roof that is half hipped at the left end and has an ornamental ridge. A brick stack is located on the ridge, slightly right of center. The building is designed in the Gothic Revival style and consists of two storeys.

There is a projecting wing, which may have served as a stair tower, featuring a mansard roof and a small window on each floor. To the right of this wing, there is a ledged door situated under a tiled pentice supported by shaped brackets. The ground floor includes two casement windows set beneath segmental brick arches. On the first floor, at the right end, there is one half dormer with casement windows under a pointed segmental arch and a projecting roof, along with two small casements located under the eaves.

Local climate

Old School House, Milton Abbas receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 3 transactions since 2011
  • 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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