South West Classrooms at Sherborne School is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Educational building.
South West Classrooms at Sherborne School
- WRENN ID
- distant-step-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Educational building
- Address
- South West Classrooms at Sherborne School, Abbey Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 637 164
- Coordinates
- 50.94677, -2.51751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South West Classrooms at Sherborne School were built between 1869 and 1870, designed by architects W H Slater and R H Carpenter. This two-storey block extends south along Abbey Road from the First War Memorial extension to the Chapel. It features five window bays, with three more closely spaced. The building has a stone slate roof and a stone front, complemented by a moulded eaves cornice and string courses. The lower string courses on the east side are set higher, indicating a place where an extension was originally planned. The upper windows are adorned with gables above. On the west side, the ground floor has four-light windows from left to right, a doorway with a pointed head and square drip mould, and at the south end, there are two three-light windows with a four-light window in the center. The first floor in the south gable end includes a two-tier five-light window. The South West Classrooms are part of a group of buildings surrounding the greens immediately north of the Abbey Church of St Mary.
Local climate
South West Classrooms at Sherborne School 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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