The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1964. A C17 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

The Old School House

WRENN ID
quartered-newel-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 June 1964
Type
Cottage
Address
The Old School House, Higher Street, West and Middle Chinnock, TA18 7QA
OS grid reference
ST 467 134
Coordinates
50.91807, -2.75879
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old School House is a 17th-century cottage located on the west side of Higher Street in West Chinnock. It is constructed of roughly cut and squared local stone with Ham stone dressings, featuring coped gables and a thatched roof. The cottage has two storeys and two bays. The ground floor windows are 3-light mullioned casements with ovolo mouldings and labels above. Above them are leaded casement windows partly set into the thatch. A later leaded casement window is located to the right of the ground floor. A doorway with a heavy frame and exposed timber lintel sits between the bays. Brick chimney stacks are visible at the ends. An unnamed house attached to the south side is not included in the listing.

Local climate

The Old School House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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