Dropmore County First School is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. A C19 School. 2 related planning applications.
Dropmore County First School
- WRENN ID
- young-pediment-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- School
- Address
- Dropmore County First School, Littleworth Road, Burnham, SL1 8PF
- OS grid reference
- SU 932 863
- Coordinates
- 51.56811, -0.65634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dropmore County First School is a 19th-century building featuring a brick base and two brick buttresses. The structure is timber-framed and weather-boarded, topped with a thatched roof. It has two central chimneys and stands two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there is one 2-light casement window, one 3-light casement window, and a 6-light window, along with a 4-panel entrance door that has a hood supported by timber brackets. The first floor contains two 3-light casements set into the roof beneath the thatch. There are modern additions to the building.
Local climate
Dropmore County First School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% 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 — 2 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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