Spurstow Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. School.
Spurstow Primary School
- WRENN ID
- frozen-sentry-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- SJ 573 560
- Coordinates
- 53.1003, -2.63785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spurstow Primary School is a former Crewe Estate school built in 1872, designed in the Gothic Revival style. The building features red brick construction with a tiled roof and has an "E" shaped plan with single and two-storey sections. It has a projecting blue brick plinth and a framed, ledged and braced door set in a stone-dressed opening that features a Tudor arch with a keystone. Above the door, there are small trefoil-headed lights in stone frames, along with a clock framed in stone and blue bricks, complete with a drip mould.
An octagonal tower rises above the door, resting on a square base with a cornice that has stone broaches. The tower includes louvred quatrefoil openings, wide bracketed eaves, and a steep pagoda roof made of shaped slates. The tall, two-light windows are stone dressed, featuring flat cusped ogee heads and blue brick relieving arches above. Diaper work in blue bricks is present between the windows.
The east front showcases a gabled projecting porch with trefoil-headed lights and carved fleur-de-lis panels on the sides. This porch is flanked by chimney stacks that reduce in size, small stone-dressed ogee-headed windows, and tablets displaying Crewe Estate emblems. Above the porch, a small stone-dressed window is set in a half dormer. The entrances and dormer feature barge boards carved with gothic motifs. The roof is adorned with alternating bands of red and blue tiles and includes triangular mid-slope vents. Inside, the school has four-panel doors with herringbone infilling.
Local climate
Spurstow Primary School receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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