Odcombe Voluntary Aided Primary School and Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. School. 2 related planning applications.

Odcombe Voluntary Aided Primary School and Front Boundary Railings

WRENN ID
distant-attic-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1961
Type
School
Address
Odcombe Voluntary Aided Primary School and Front Boundary Railings, Dray Road, BA22 8UL
OS grid reference
ST 506 154
Coordinates
50.93627, -2.70427
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Odcombe Voluntary Aided Primary School is a school building dating from the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble made from Ham stone, with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof that features stepped coped gables and a stone chimney stack. The building is single-storey and consists of three bays on each side.

The eastern section of the school is slightly larger and includes three-light pointed arched windows with Y-tracery and no labels. There is a pointed arched doorway located under an arched label between the first and second bays, along with a later door in a lean-to structure against the east gable. The western gable features a late 19th-century extension that has end buttresses, a moulded eaves course, and windows that are cruciform wave moulded with mullions and transoms, set in hollow-chamfered recesses under square labels that drop to transom level. The windows are rectangular-leaded below and ornamentally-leaded above the transoms. A small lancet window is present in the south gable.

About one metre south of the building, there are wrought-iron railings on a low stone wall, which are approximately one metre high. These railings have arrowhead spikes and urn finials on braced standards, with a gap opposite the doorway. The railings contribute to the overall setting of the school.

Local climate

Odcombe Voluntary Aided Primary School and 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 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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