Former County Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1981. School. 3 related planning applications.
Former County Primary School
- WRENN ID
- heavy-ledge-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1981
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former County Primary School, Gainsborough, Milborne Port, DT9 5BA
- OS grid reference
- ST 673 186
- Coordinates
- 50.96603, -2.46625
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former County Primary School, now a video film library, is a late 19th-century building constructed from squared and boasted ham stone, with Bath stone ashlar dressings. It features a plain clay tile roof adorned with bands of fish scale between coped gables topped with finials. The building has an I-plan layout and is a single storey high.
The south elevation consists of five bays, with the first and fifth bays having projecting gables. These bays are connected by a flat-roofed colonnade that features five pointed arches supported by squat Norman-style circular columns with varied carved capitals. The first and fifth bays contain 5-light chamfered mullioned and transomed windows with square labels, topped by small rectangular gable vents. The middle bays have quasi-dormers above the colonnade, featuring 2-and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, all under square labels.
The rear elevation is similar but has an outshut instead of a colonnade. It includes slim lancet windows in bays two and four, and in bay three, there is a pointed arch doorway at the base of a five-stage tower. This tower has a small quatrefoil in diamond lights on the second stage, a single cusped light on the third stage, and ashlar on the fourth stage, which displays clock faces on the north and south sides beneath an apron. The tower is topped with a wooden open bell turret and a steeply pitched spirelet with a weathervane. The school was designed by Henry Hall in 1864, and if this is indeed the same building, it was considered very advanced in design for its time.
Local climate
Former County Primary School receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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