Archway at Entrance to Sherborne School Playing Fields is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Archway.

Archway at Entrance to Sherborne School Playing Fields

WRENN ID
solemn-minaret-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1973
Type
Archway
Address
Archway at Entrance to Sherborne School Playing Fields, Horsecastles
OS grid reference
ST 635 162
Coordinates
50.94431, -2.52088
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The archway at the entrance to Sherborne School Playing Fields dates from 1853 and was originally the entrance to Sherborne School. It is constructed of ashlar stone. The central feature is a wide pointed and moulded arch, which is flanked on the left by one buttress and on the right by two buttresses, all of which have one offset. Above the arch is a crenellated parapet. To the left of the main arch is a narrower arch that has carved foliated spandrels and a crenellated parapet as well. The main arch features carved quatrefoils or mouchettes in the spandrels, and there is a relief of the Royal Arms, added in 1889, situated in the space between the arch and the parapet. The archway is completed with iron gates.

Local climate

Archway at Entrance to Sherborne School Playing Fields receives an average of 840 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 64% 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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