The Old School, and Boundary Railings to North and West is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. School. 3 related planning applications.
The Old School, and Boundary Railings to North and West
- WRENN ID
- sunken-plinth-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1987
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, and Boundary Railings to North and West, Church Street, Donyatt, TA19 0RG
- OS grid reference
- ST 338 140
- Coordinates
- 50.92175, -2.94184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School, originally a school building and now a private house, was constructed in 1871. It is built of Ham stone, with squared stone, ashlar dressings, a plain clay tiled roof featuring fish-scale bands and ornamental ridge tiles. The roof is gabled with bargeboards and spike finials, and includes a stone chimney stack. The building has a 'T' plan, with a single storey, north elevation consisting of four bays. Bay four is the projecting gable of a western crosswing. Features include a plinth, mullioned windows with chamfered frames; bays one and two have shoulder-arched lights, while bay four has trefoil-cusped lights set under a relieving arch in the tall gable, finished with a trefoil vent. A pitched roof porch with chamfered pointed outer and inner arches is located in bay three, and contains a boarded door and a datestone in the gable. The west elevation mirrors the north, with three bays, the outer bays having single cusped lancets, and a projecting lower gable with a two-light plate-traceried window with a label and rectangular vent above. A 20th-century extension is present at the rear. The interior appears largely unaltered.
Approximately 4 metres from the building, to the north and west, is a low stone wall with angled coping. This wall has piers at intervals of around 3 metres and two rows of diagonally-set square section iron rods, with Gothic-style cast iron posts. The wall curves at a corner, incorporating a recess that contains the remains of a 19th-century water hydrant. A gateway, opposite the porch on the north side, is missing its gate. The railings contribute to the setting of the building and enhance the streetscene at a prominent location in the village centre.
Local climate
The Old School, and Boundary Railings to North and West 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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