Dunster County Primary School Main School Building is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. School.
Dunster County Primary School Main School Building
- WRENN ID
- over-portal-myrtle
- 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 Main School Building, St George's Street, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 989 436
- Coordinates
- 51.18333, -3.44742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dunster County Primary School Main School Building was constructed in 1871, designed by architect J P St Aubyn, and has undergone later alterations and additions. The building is made of snecked red rubble sandstone, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings. It has tiled roofs with two ridge chimneys, gables that have projecting purlins, moulded bargeboards, and footstones to the plates. The east gable includes a small belfry located below the apex of the gable. This large single-storey building has a roughly 'Z' shaped plan, with a configuration of 2:3:2 bays on the long sides (east, south, and east again). The windows include casements, stepped and transomed lancet triplets with cusped heads and labels on the gables, and 2 and 3-light windows with Caernarvon arches on the side walls. The entrance is located in a catslide extension at the southwest angle. Note that the modern hall building and classrooms are not included in this listing.
Local climate
Dunster County Primary School Main School Building 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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