The School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. School.
The School
- WRENN ID
- still-marble-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- The School, Vicarage Lane, Norton St. Philip
- OS grid reference
- ST 771 557
- Coordinates
- 51.30015, -2.32893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School is a building dating from 1827, designed by J. Thompson. It is constructed from ashlar and coursed Doulting stone and features two-stage, coupled angle buttresses with pinnacles, battlemented parapets, and end gables. The roof is made of Welsh slate and includes a central iron ventilator. This single-storey building is rectangular in plan and showcases Gothic revival style elements. There are entrance porches at each end made of ashlar stone, with octagonal angle buttresses topped with finials, plain parapets, and chamfered four-centred door openings. The east elevation has four two-light windows with nine panes of 20th-century glazing, which have four-centred arch heads and arched dripmoulds.
Local climate
The School receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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