Boyle's Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. School. 3 related planning applications.
Boyle's Old School
- WRENN ID
- stony-cornice-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1951
- Type
- School
- Address
- Boyle's Old School, High Street, Yetminster, DT9 6LF
- OS grid reference
- ST 592 108
- Coordinates
- 50.89558, -2.58089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boyle's Old School is a former school building, founded by Robert Boyle in 1691 and constructed in 1697. It is now partially used as a photographic studio. The building features rubble stone walls and a tiled roof with coped gables, along with one brick and one plastered chimney stack. It has an L-shaped plan with a rear wing, where the main range is two storeys high and the rear wing is single-storey.
On the street front, there is a blocked doorway with a four-centred arch and a stone panel above it with a moulded surround. The ground floor has two tall stone mullioned and transomed windows with casements that include a centre horizontal bar, both under hoodmoulds. The first floor features three stone mullioned windows, also under hoodmoulds, with similar casements. The entrance is located in the right end wall, accessed through a 20th-century flat-roofed porch. The rear wing has a slate roof and one ashlar chimney stack, along with two mullioned and transomed windows that have casements with a centre horizontal bar. It is noted that the left-hand section of the ground floor of the front range and the entire first floor are now part of School House.
Local climate
Boyle's Old School receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- 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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