The Old School and School House, Including Front Boundary Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. A Victorian School.
The Old School and School House, Including Front Boundary Wall and Railings
- WRENN ID
- scarred-spire-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1986
- Type
- School
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- The Old School and School House, Including Front Boundary Wall and Railings, West Street, Corfe Castle
- OS grid reference
- SY 957 796
- Coordinates
- 50.6161, -2.06155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School and School House, including the front boundary wall and railings, is a former school and school house that has been converted into one house. It dates from around 1870 and features rough ashlar stone walls with ashlar dressings and a tiled roof, which includes some fish-scale tiling. The building is two storeys high and is designed in a simple Gothic Revival style.
The original school house, located on the right, has a gabled projection at its right end. This section includes one casement window with glazing bars on each floor and a cross-shaped vent above the upper window. To the left of the gable, there is a ledged door with ornamental iron hinges set in a shouldered arched opening. The ground floor has another casement window with glazing bars, while a similar casement is found on the first floor beneath a gabled dormer.
At the left end is the original schoolroom, which features a projecting gable that contains a triple lancet window with hoodmoulds and foliated stops. To the left of this is a gabled porch, which has a ledged door in a pointed arched opening, with a scroll above it inscribed "In Memoriam." There is also a wing to the left of this porch, which runs parallel to the main range and includes a triple lancet window in its end gable wall.
The property is enclosed by a stone front boundary wall, which has chamfered square piers topped with stepped pyramidal caps, and is complemented by simple iron railings.
Local climate
The Old School and School House, Including Front Boundary Wall and Railings receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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