St Marys Primary School Including Thornhill is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1974. School.

St Marys Primary School Including Thornhill

WRENN ID
scarred-chapel-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 October 1974
Type
School
Address
St Marys Primary School Including Thornhill, King Street, Bridport
OS grid reference
SY 468 927
Coordinates
50.73235, -2.75487
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Marys Primary School, including Thornhill, and Nos 17A and 17B, was founded in 1850/1 as a former British School. It is constructed of hammer dressed stone with a pitched slate roof and features paired ashlar stacks. The building has various coped gables on kneelers. The south block is one storey, while the north block is two storeys. There is a porch with an open bell-cote on the gable. The main door is part-glazed and has a fanlight set in a 4-centred arch with a hoodmould. The windows are mullion and transom style, also with hoodmoulds. The north block features planked double doors with elaborate hinges in a similar frame, flanked by lancet windows with hoodmoulds and triple stepped lancets with a hoodmould above. Nos 17A and 17B have planked doors set in single chamfered arches.

Local climate

St Marys Primary School Including Thornhill receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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