Winsham County Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. School. 6 related planning applications.

Winsham County Primary School

WRENN ID
rough-tower-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1987
Type
School
Address
Winsham County Primary School, Church Street, TA20 4HU
OS grid reference
ST 374 063
Coordinates
50.85301, -2.88973
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Winsham County Primary School is a village school with an attached schoolhouse, dated 1850, and has undergone some modifications. It is constructed from roughly squared local stone with Ham stone ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables, along with brick chimney stacks. The building has an 'H' plan, consisting of a single-storey school and a two-storey house.

The south elevation facing Pooles Lane has four bays, each with wide lancet windows under labels, which have been fitted with small-pane casements. Between the second and third bays, there is a projecting gabled porch topped with a cross finial, featuring a pointed-arched doorway with a label. Above the doorway is an incised stone inscribed 'AD 1850', and there is a small stone tabernacle with boarded sides that houses the school bell.

The west and east end gables have pairs of later windows. The east elevation facing Church Street extends northwards and includes a three-unit plain window, a segmental pointed-arched doorway, and another lancet window. This is followed by the three-bay schoolhouse, where the third bay is a north crosswing. The lower bays one and three have trefoil-arched three-light mullioned and transomed windows under segmental-pointed relieving arches, while the upper bays feature two-light mullioned and transomed windows, with bay one set in a gabled dormer. There is a simpler window under the eaves of upper bay two, below which is a segmental pointed-arched doorway. The interiors have not been inspected.

Local climate

Winsham County Primary School receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% 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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