British Legion House Including Boundary Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Former school, community hall.
British Legion House Including Boundary Wall and Railings
- WRENN ID
- broken-flint-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Former school, community hall
- Address
- British Legion House Including Boundary Wall and Railings, East Street, Corfe Castle
- OS grid reference
- SY 962 818
- Coordinates
- 50.63626, -2.05509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The British Legion House, formerly known as the Old School, is a former school building that now serves as a British Legion Hall. It was built in 1834 and extended to the rear before 1850. The structure features rubblestone walls and a slate roof adorned with ornamental bargeboards. There is a brick stack at the left end of the main block. The original building has an L-shaped plan with a projecting wing at the right end and stands two storeys tall.
In the wing, there is a battened door beneath a slightly cambered stone lintel, with a date stone positioned above it. On the first floor of the wing, there is one casement window with cast iron lattice glazing, also under a slightly cambered stone lintel. A single-storey lean-to is located on the left side of the wing. In the main range, there is a ledged door, and the ground floor features one sash window with glazing bars. The first floor has two similar sash windows.
The main front boundary wall is constructed of rubble stone and topped with cock and hen coping. To the right of this wall, there are iron railings with shaped tops and scroll brackets for the gate posts, although the gates are missing.
Local climate
British Legion House Including Boundary Wall and Railings receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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