School and Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1987. School and almshouses. 7 related planning applications.
School and Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- second-terrace-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1987
- Type
- School and almshouses
- Address
- School and Almshouses, Dauntsey Green, SN15 4HX
- OS grid reference
- ST 995 819
- Coordinates
- 51.53668, -2.00839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises a village school and attached almshouses, constructed in 1865 of red brick with ashlar dressings and banded plain tile roofs. The school is situated to the left and has an L-shaped layout, incorporating a left cross wing and a three-window main range. The cross wing features a pointed two-light window with plate tracery. There is a chimney in the angle to the main range, which has three-light windows with shouldered heads and mullions. A buttress is located to the left of the central window, and a truncated external stack is on the right. A Gothic timber bellcote with a leaded square spirelet sits at the east end.
A low link connects the school to a near-symmetrical range of almshouses, with a schoolteacher's house adjoining the school. This range is single-storey, with projecting gabled two-storey cross wings at each end. Originally, there were ornamental moulded brick chimneys, of which one group of four shafts remains on the ridge of the left cross wing, and two two-shaft stacks on the ridge of the centre. The right cross wing has north end and east side stacks with rebuilt shafts. Each cross wing has a ground floor three-light and a first floor two-light stone mullion window, all with hoodmoulds and relieving arches. The left cross wing's east gable rises through the roof of the centre range, forming the main asymmetrical element. The centre roof sweeps low over a ten-bay verandah supported by timber posts.
To the left of the verandah is a door and a two-light mullion window, belonging to the two-storey left cross wing. A sequence of four almshouses follows, with a door and a window each, arranged in the pattern DWWDDWWD (Door, Window, Window, Door, Door, Window, Window, Door). The windows in the almshouses are twentieth-century metal replacements for original two-light mullions. A door is situated in the side wall of the right cross wing.
Local climate
School and Almshouses receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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