Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Former school, house. 2 related planning applications.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- last-pillar-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Former school, house
- Address
- Old School House, Woodsford
- OS grid reference
- SY 762 904
- Coordinates
- 50.71319, -2.3379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former school and school house that has been converted into a private residence. It dates from the mid-19th century and features rough ashlar stone walls and a tiled roof with bargeboards. There are rough ashlar stacks with moulded caps, one located at the left end and another to the right of the center. The building is one storey with an attic.
At the right end, there is a projecting single storey flat-roofed extension with plastered walls and one sash window. The main range includes a slightly projecting gabled wing at the right end, which was originally the classroom. This wing has a three-light Gothic window with trefoiled lights and remnants of lead lights. To the left of this, there is a ledged door set in a shouldered arched opening. On the ground floor, to the right of the door, is a single light window with a plain casement, while to the left is a triple lancet window with trefoiled lights. The attic features two half dormers, each gabled, with a pair of trefoil-headed lancets.
Local climate
Old School House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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