The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- winter-string-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old School House, Barrow Hill, Bere Regis, BH20 7JB
- OS grid reference
- SY 846 950
- Coordinates
- 50.7546, -2.21847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is an early 18th-century building, originally a school founded in 1719. It is now a house. The building is constructed of brick with a plat band at first-floor level, and has a slate roof with a brick centre stack. It is two storeys high. A porch with a gabled slate roof contains a round-headed doorway with a panelled door. On the ground floor are one double-hung sash window and one 20th-century casement window. The first floor has three double-hung sash windows. The building is included in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments as Monument 29.
Local climate
The Old School House 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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