School House Dining Hall at Sherborne Hall is a Grade I listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. A C17 School / school building.
School House Dining Hall at Sherborne Hall
- WRENN ID
- steep-window-tide
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- School / school building
- Address
- School House Dining Hall at Sherborne Hall, Abbey Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 638 165
- Coordinates
- 50.94691, -2.51602
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House Dining Hall at Sherborne School is a Grade I listed building located on Abbey Road. This structure served as the main school building from the school's re-establishment by Edward II until around 1850. The current building was constructed or rebuilt in 1606 or 1608 and underwent restorations in 1670 and 1886, during which the south wall and waggon roof were reconstructed.
The dining hall is a single-storey building featuring a balustraded parapet on the south wall. From the left to the right, there is a two-light window above the entrance to the main court of the school, a doorway with a four-centred arch, and the arms of Edward VI above it, created by Roger Moore in 1600. Additionally, there are two restored 17th-century windows with four transomed lights and a modern bay window. Inside, there is a statue of Edward VI by Godfrey Arnold, dated 1614.
The School House Dining Hall is part of a group of buildings that surround the greens immediately to the north of the Abbey Church of St Mary, forming a cohesive architectural context with the church and other school buildings.
Local climate
School House Dining Hall at Sherborne Hall 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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