Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. School.

Old School House

WRENN ID
blind-minaret-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
School
Address
Old School House, Tout Hill, Shaftesbury
OS grid reference
ST 860 231
Coordinates
51.00728, -2.2006
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old School House, dating from 1615, features an early 19th-century front. It is a two-storey building with three windows and has a slate gable roof, complemented by an ashlar stack at the right-hand end. The structure is constructed of stone rubble with an ashlar front. There is a small two-light window in the gable end, and the windows are set in reveals with intact glazing bars. The entrance includes a round-headed doorway with a six flush-panelled door and a semi-circular fanlight above.

Local climate

Old School House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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