The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. School, dwelling.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- rough-iron-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- School, dwelling
- Address
- The Old School House, Pound Lane, Downhead
- OS grid reference
- ST 692 459
- Coordinates
- 51.21159, -2.44134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a mid-19th century school building that has been converted into a dwelling. It is constructed of painted rubble with dressed quoins and features a plain and fishscale tile roof. The building is designed in a Gothic style and has one and a half storeys with two bays. It includes two-light chamfered stone mullioned windows, where each light has a segmental head, above sashes with a single mullion. The broad gabled porch has coping and a base for a finial, and it features a pointed arch door opening with a label and a pair of two-panelled doors. There is a two-light mullioned window on the left return and a single attic light. At the rear, there is an extensive 20th-century gabled addition.
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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