The Old School House and Front Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1984. Former school-house.
The Old School House and Front Wall and Railings
- WRENN ID
- worn-attic-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1984
- Type
- Former school-house
- Address
- The Old School House and Front Wall and Railings, Bridge Street, Netherbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 470 992
- Coordinates
- 50.7905, -2.75318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House, now a dwelling, is a former school building dating from the early 19th century. It features dressed stone walls and a slate roof with stone gable copings and level kneelers. The building has been fitted with renewed 20th-century brick stacks. It stands two storeys tall and has three windows on the ground floor, with square bay windows on either side of the central door. The ground floor windows have stone bases, wooden cills, and glazing bars for the fixed windows, topped with a moulded wooden cornice. Above, there are three cast-iron two-light casement windows with marginal glazing bars. The front doorway is centrally located and has an elliptical head, featuring a panelled door with two top lights, dating from the 19th century. Additionally, there is a front stone sleeper wall with iron railings.
Local climate
The Old School House and Front Wall and Railings receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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