The School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. School, dwelling.
The School Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-pinnacle-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- School, dwelling
- Address
- The School Cottage, Whitestaunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 280 104
- Coordinates
- 50.88949, -3.02369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School Cottage is a building that was originally a school and is now a dwelling. It was constructed in 1864 using squared and coursed local stone with Ham stone dressings and has slate roofs. There is a stone stack on the west gable end. The structure consists of a single-storey block on the left and a two-storey section adjoining to the west. The two-storey part has two bays, with the first floor featuring gabled tops above two-light leaded wooden casements that have semi-circular heads.
On the ground floor of the left block, there is a gabled single-storey porch that is accessed by a flight of four steps. This porch has a Tudor arch head doorway with a ribbed door. There is also a three-light Ham stone Tudor arch head mullioned window with incised spandrels and a hoodmould, which is similar to a window in the block to the right, where there is also a two-light wooden casement. The left return gable end has an inserted 20th-century window.
The school was funded by the Elton family, who were the lords of the manor. It closed in 1966 and was converted into a private dwelling in 1974.
Local climate
The School Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% 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 65% 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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