Arts and Crafts Block with Attached Covered Playgrounds is a Grade II listed building in the Hartlepool local planning authority area, England. Educational block.

Arts and Crafts Block with Attached Covered Playgrounds

WRENN ID
little-pavement-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hartlepool
Constituency
Hartlepool MP: Mr Jonathan Brash (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Educational block
OS grid reference
NZ 500 318
Coordinates
54.67963, -1.2248
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is an Arts and Crafts block with attached covered playgrounds, constructed in 1904 and designed by Richard Hall. It is made of red brick with slate roofs and reconstituted stone dressings.

The covered playground to the north of the main school features three cast iron columns at the front, with the remaining walls being brick. It has a hipped slate roof. A linking wall to the east connects to another similar playground that has a classroom above, characterized by rusticated quoins. The ground floor of this section has two cast iron columns, and above them are three pairs of casement windows. To the left, there is a slightly projecting wing that includes a round-headed doorway with double doors and an overlight. Above this doorway is a curved oriel window with triple casements, and the entire structure is topped with a parapet that has coping all around.

Local climate

Arts and Crafts Block with Attached Covered Playgrounds receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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