Minterne Magna School is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. School, house.
Minterne Magna School
- WRENN ID
- vast-window-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- School, house
- OS grid reference
- ST 656 050
- Coordinates
- 50.84416, -2.48978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Minterne Magna School, now a house, was built in 1860. It features rubble walls and a slated, gable-ended roof with ashlar dressings. There is a bell-cote on the right gable and a cross wing on the left, along with a gabled porch on the right. The building is single storey with a three-window range and a two-storey gabled cross wing. The square-headed stone mullioned windows each have a four-centred head, and the cast-iron casements are adorned with diamond pattern panes. The porch includes a date stone.
Local climate
Minterne Magna School receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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