The School House, with Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. School.
The School House, with Front Boundary Railings
- WRENN ID
- over-stronghold-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- School
- Address
- The School House, with Front Boundary Railings, the Green, Long Sutton
- OS grid reference
- ST 468 253
- Coordinates
- 51.02515, -2.75888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House, with front boundary railings, is a former school that has been converted into a house. It was built in 1840 and reshaped in 1871. The structure is made of local lias stone that has been cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings, and features a Welsh slate roof between coped gables and brick end chimney stacks. The building is a single storey with an attic and consists of two bays. Below, there are three-light chamfered mullioned windows with square labels, and above, pairs of two-light mullioned windows are set under segmental arched heads in slightly projecting gabled dormers, each supported by three corbel blocks, with slit gable vents above. Between the bays is a part-glazed door in a plain opening with a thin stone lintel. There is a 20th-century extension at the rear. The interior has not been seen. Approximately 3 metres east of the house are the boundary railings, which are about 1 metre high, made of cast iron with spear-head points, along with a pair of simple matching gates that enhance the setting of the house. Originally erected as the village schoolroom in 1840 on the site of a former vicarage, it became the master's house in 1871 when the current school was built opposite.
Local climate
The School House, with Front Boundary Railings 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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