The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. School house.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-vault-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- School house
- Address
- The Old School House, High Street, Toller Porcorum
- OS grid reference
- SY 561 978
- Coordinates
- 50.77869, -2.62337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a detached school building that has been converted into a private residence. It dates from the late 19th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The exterior features rendered walls painted white and a slate roof that has a gable end on the left side and a hipped roof on the right. There are brick stacks located on the ridge at both the left and right of the center. The building is two storeys high and has four windows, which are two-light wooden casements with lead lights and wooden cills. The front doorway is positioned to the right of center and features a moulded depressed-arch head with stop-chamfers. The door itself is a 20th-century glazed design. Additionally, there is a brick porch with a round-headed entrance and a slate roof that has stone gable-coping.
Local climate
The Old School House 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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