Dunster County Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. School. 6 related planning applications.

Dunster County Primary School

WRENN ID
tenth-doorway-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1983
Type
School
Address
Dunster County Primary School, St George's Street, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 989 436
Coordinates
51.18315, -3.44754
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dunster County Primary School was built in 1871 and designed by architect J P St Aubyn. The building is constructed from dressed and snecked red sandstone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings. It has plain tile roofs with gables that include footstones to the plate and rubble side chimneys. The school has a roughly 'L' shaped plan and is two storeys tall.

On the south and east gables, there is one range of windows, which includes casements and 3-light lancets on the first floor with relieving arches, as well as 1, 3, and 4-light Caernarvon-arched windows on the ground floor. A half-hipped lean-to porch with cusped bracing is located at the angle of the building. A notable feature of the school is the heavily corbelled corners on the south gable, which allow for single lights at the ground floor corners.

Local climate

Dunster County Primary School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
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