Ash School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. School.

Ash School

WRENN ID
second-steel-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 April 1987
Type
School
Address
Ash School, Main Street
OS grid reference
ST 472 207
Coordinates
50.98362, -2.75327
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ash School is a village school located on Main Street, built in 1846 and extended in 1894. The building is constructed from coursed rubble made of Ham stone and features a Welsh slate roof with stepped coped gables and a sawn stone ridge. It has a brick chimney stack and an open timber bell turret topped with a pyramidal lead roof. The east elevation is single-storey with six bays, featuring pairs of plain lancet windows with horizontal-bar inserts. The fifth bay includes a projecting porch with a shouldered-arched doorway on the south side, a lancet and pointed-arch doorway on the north side, and a quatrefoil window on the east with a pair of slit vents above. There is also a shield plaque that reads "Ash Church of England School 1846." The south gable has two lancet windows, while the north gable has three lancet windows, an old clock face, and a gable vent. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Ash School receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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