Custos Lodge at Sherborne School is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Custos Lodge at Sherborne School
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-tower-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Custos Lodge at Sherborne School, Abbey Road, DT9 3AP
- OS grid reference
- ST 637 165
- Coordinates
- 50.94762, -2.51704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Custos Lodge at Sherborne School is a building dating from 1625, located on the southeast side of Abbey Road. It features a south front that consists of one storey and an attic, topped with a plain-tile roof that has stone coping and kneelers. The stone walls are complemented by ashlar quoins.
On the right side of the upper section, there is a two-light mullioned window with a gable above each light, both having four-centred heads and carved spandrels. To the left, a small projecting corbelled chimney stack is present, accompanied by a small single-light cusp-headed window to the right.
On the ground floor, at the right end, there is a moulded two-centred stone doorway with a door that has cover strips and elaborate hinges. To the left, there is a three-light window and a single-light window, both featuring four-centred heads. The west gable end includes a two-light window above and below, with four-centred heads and dripmoulds. Access to Custos Lodge is through the adjoining Tower.
This building is part of a group that includes other structures of Sherborne School, surrounding the greens immediately to the north of the Abbey Church of St Mary.
Local climate
Custos Lodge at Sherborne School receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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