The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. A C18 School. 4 related planning applications.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- rusted-flue-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, Pulham, DT2 7DZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 706 087
- Coordinates
- 50.8773, -2.41792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a late 18th-century school and school house, now combined into a single dwelling. It is located in Pulham. The building is constructed of coursed rubble and brick, with a gabled tiled roof and a central brick stack. The layout consists of a school room positioned to the left of centre, a house to the right, and a lower, subsidiary range to the left.
The main range is two storeys high with a five-window front. A central porch includes a bellcot. The right side of the building features two-light windows with four panes of glass. The school room has two tall windows.
Local climate
The Old School receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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