Horningsham County Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1986. Primary school. 5 related planning applications.
Horningsham County Primary School
- WRENN ID
- fossil-column-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1986
- Type
- Primary school
- Address
- Horningsham County Primary School, Church Street, BA12 7LW
- OS grid reference
- ST 819 413
- Coordinates
- 51.17128, -2.2598
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horningsham County Primary School is a primary school with an attached school master's house, built in 1844 for the Longleat Estate. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone and features a tiled roof with a pair of diagonally-set ashlar stacks. It has an 'L'-shaped plan and is a single storey with three windows.
On the right side, there is a gabled porch that has Tudor-arched planked doors on the sides and a 2-light Perpendicular window at the front, with coped verges. To the left, there are three 2-light recessed hollow-chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. The left return features a large 3-light Perpendicular window with a hoodmould and one recessed chamfered light above, also with a coped verge. The roof is topped with a square louvred bellcote that has a pyramidal lead roof and a weathervane.
Attached to the left is a lean-to that includes a planked door and a 2-light casement window, along with access to a tunnel leading to the rear playground. The rear of the building has a lean-to porch with a 2-light beaded mullioned casement window, while the main range displays two large hollow-chamfered mullioned windows. The infants' block in the rear wing to the right has round-arched windows at the basement level and an entry to the tunnel, with the ground floor featuring a cross window and a hollow-chamfered window on either side.
Inside, the school has 4-panelled doors and a partly glazed partition to the main room, with the roof concealed by a dropped ceiling. The school house, located to the right of the main porch, has a 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement window with a hoodmould and a doorway leading to No 68. The first floor includes a gabled half-dormer with a 2-light mullioned casement window, which is now partly used as the school kitchen.
Local climate
Horningsham County Primary School receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 5 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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