Old School Room is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. School.
Old School Room
- WRENN ID
- sharp-mortar-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old School Room, 1, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster
- OS grid reference
- ST 481 011
- Coordinates
- 50.80776, -2.73729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School Room is an attached former school building dating from the early 19th century. It features coursed rubble-stone walls and a pyramidal slate roof, standing two storeys tall. The ground floor has two windows, including a prominent three-light window with a central sash that has glazing bars. This window is framed by a stone architrave with a projecting dropped keystone. The upper floor also has sash windows. The front door, located on the right side of the ground floor, is set within a stone architrave and topped by a completely open stone pediment. The wooden door itself has flush panels and four glass lights. Inside, there are slightly chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Old School Room receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings