School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. A C19 House.

School Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-dormer-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1985
Type
House
Address
School Cottage, Milton Abbas
OS grid reference
ST 799 024
Coordinates
50.82093, -2.28564
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

School Cottage is a house that was originally a pair of cottages, built in the mid-19th century. It is attached to former stables and features walls made of flint with brick banding and brick dressings. The roof is slate and has ornamental bargeboards, with a central brick chimney stack. The building is one storey high with an attic. The main front has a twin gabled projection in the center. Each end section has a ledged door with cover fillets, topped by an elliptical brick arch and sheltered by a slate pentice on brackets. The ground floor includes two casement windows with diamond cast iron glazing, set under gauged brick arches, and there are two similar windows in the attic gables, giving the cottage a picturesque appearance.

Local climate

School Cottage 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 69% 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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