Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. House, former school. 1 related planning application.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- crooked-wicket-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- House, former school
- Address
- Old School House, Dunkeswell, EX14 4RP
- OS grid reference
- ST 141 106
- Coordinates
- 50.88937, -3.22184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a house that was formerly a school and school house, built around 1840 to 1850. It is constructed from local stone and flint rubble, featuring Hamstone ashlar quoins and detailing. The building has stone rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick and a slate roof. The structure faces north-east and has a two-room plan house on the right (north-west), with both rooms having a rear lateral stack. The entrance is located at the rear. To the left is a single-storey school room that projects slightly from the house, which has also been converted for domestic use. The house is two storeys tall and designed in the Tudor Gothic style.
The exterior features a regular three-window front with Hamstone two-light windows that have segmental headed lights and hoodmoulds, containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. The right-hand bay is recessed from the main front. The roof of the house is gable-ended, with shaped kneelers, coping, and apex finials. The former schoolroom has a central doorway with its original diagonal plank door, set behind a gabled porch with a segmental headed outer arch. This doorway is flanked by three-light Hamstone windows similar to those on the house, but these contain plain glass. The left end of the schoolroom features a large 20th-century window, and the roof above is also gable-ended. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Old School House 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 greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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