The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. School, house. 1 related planning application.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- eastward-granite-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- The Old School, Verwood Road, Woodlands, BH21 8LP
- OS grid reference
- SU 050 090
- Coordinates
- 50.88114, -1.92993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a former school that has been converted into a private house. It was built around 1850 for the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. The building features brick walls and a tiled roof adorned with bands of fish-scale tiling and moulded bargeboards. There is one brick chimney stack located to the left of the center. The structure is single storey and has gabled porches at each end, each with a 20th-century panelled door. There are three casement windows with glazing bars set under depressed four-centred arches. At the right end, there is an extension with brick walls and a similar tiled roof, which has lancet windows; this extension was apparently used for worship before the Parish Church was built. The rear wing, which housed former classrooms, is of similar construction. The Old School holds local historic significance as one of Lord Shaftesbury's village schools, similar to the one at Hinton Martell.
Local climate
The Old School receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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