Merriott First School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. A Victorian School.
Merriott First School
- WRENN ID
- endless-lead-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- School
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Merriott First School, Church Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 441 127
- Coordinates
- 50.9118, -2.79541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merriott First School is a school building constructed in 1876, with an extension added around 1900. It is built from ham stone ashlar and features plain clay tiled roofs with bands of scallop tiles, along with coped gables that have gabletted finials. The original section from 1875 includes wrought-iron finials. The building is a single-storey structure with a double roof plan and projections on the east side, designed in the High Victorian gothic style.
The north elevation, which faces the road, has three bays. The first bay is the side of a projection, while the second and third bays are gabled. The first bay features a three-light plain mullioned window. The second bay has a five-light pointed-arched window with unmoulded sub-arcuated plate tracery beneath a pointed-arched label, and a two-aperture vent in the gable. The third bay contains a segmental-arched double-transomed three-light window with a string course above.
The east elevation also consists of three bays. The first bay has a plain three-light window. The second bay is a projecting porch with a catslide roof and a bell turret on the gable. The third bay, which has a full gable, features a three-light plate-traceried window without a label. There is a small extension on the south side that is set lower than the main structure.
Originally established as an infants Board school following the formation of a School Board in 1875, Merriott First School merged with the Former Sunday School across the street in 1972.
Local climate
Merriott First School receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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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