School and Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. School and schoolhouse. 6 related planning applications.
School and Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- lone-facade-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- School and schoolhouse
- Address
- School and Schoolhouse, Motcombe, SP7 9NT
- OS grid reference
- ST 848 252
- Coordinates
- 51.02628, -2.21721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School and Schoolhouse, dated 1839, features ashlar walls and a gable-ended roof covered with fish-tail tiles. The building has end stone copings with capped square finials and kneelers. The schoolhouse forms a cross-wing to the left and includes ashlar stacks at the rear gable and along the ridge. The school has a central projecting porch and is a single storey structure, while the schoolhouse is 1½ storeys tall. The school has a six-window range with square-headed windows that contain 20th-century horizontally pivoting casements. The schoolhouse features a canted oriel on the first floor. There are 20th-century extensions at the rear.
Local climate
School and Schoolhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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