Former Milton Abbas Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. Educational.

Former Milton Abbas Primary School

WRENN ID
veiled-glass-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1985
Type
Educational
Address
Former Milton Abbas Primary School, Old School House, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BL
OS grid reference
ST 808 019
Coordinates
50.81705, -2.27335
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former Milton Abbas Primary School is a mid-19th century village school located in Milton Abbas. The building features lower walls made of brick with burnt headers, while the upper walls are constructed with flint and brick banding. It has a tiled roof with an ornamental ridge, and there are two brick stacks—one rising from the front eaves and the other on the ridge. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, the school is a single-storey structure.

At the left end, there is a wing adjoining a house that runs at right angles to the road, which includes a pointed-arched window with timber tracery. To the right of this wing, there is a lean-to with a ledged door set under a pointed arch. Further right, a wing runs parallel to the road and is set back from the main structure. This wing features a gabled porch at its right end, with a ledged door beneath a pointed arch. Additionally, there are two small two-light windows with timber tracery located under segmental brick arches, as well as one taller, part-dormered gabled window that has a three-light traceried window under a pointed arch. The overall design is picturesque.

Local climate

Former Milton Abbas Primary School 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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