Former Church School and Headmaster's House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. School, house.

Former Church School and Headmaster's House

WRENN ID
moated-latch-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
School, house
Address
Former Church School and Headmaster's House, Plox, Bruton
OS grid reference
ST 683 347
Coordinates
51.1109, -2.45334
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former Church School and Headmaster's House, now serving as the King's School Carpenters shop, was built in 1856. It is constructed from local stone rubble with Doulting stone dressings and features a Welsh slate roof between coped gables, along with stone chimney stacks. The building consists of a single-storey school and a two-storey house.

The street-facing elevation has two bays; the first bay is half gabled and includes a bell turret supported by a buttress with offsets on the east side. It features a four-centre arch doorway with a fine wood gate in Gothic style and a blind window panel with a blank shield above the doorway. The second bay is wider and gabled, showcasing a four-light pointed arch window with 15th-century style tracery.

On the east side, which faces the playground—the site of the former National School—there are four bays, each with a separate gable. There is a chimney breast between the first and second bays and a buttress between the second and third bays. The fourth bay, which was the house, projects slightly and has two-light curvilinear traceried windows high into the gables of the first and second bays. The window in the third bay is similar but smaller, with added sidelights, and there is a four-centre arched doorway low to the left. The fourth bay features plain cusped paired lancet windows. The interiors were not seen, but the building is noted for its importance in the street scene.

Local climate

Former Church School and Headmaster's House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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