Ridley County Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1984. School.
Ridley County Primary School
- WRENN ID
- keen-jade-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- Ridley County Primary School, Wrexham Road, Bulkeley and Ridley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 542 544
- Coordinates
- 53.08559, -2.6852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ridley County Primary School is a village school built in 1876, as noted on a stone tablet, in the Gothic style. It is constructed from coursed rock-faced sandstone and features a tiled roof. The building is single storey with three bays, and includes a two-storey, single bay teacher's house on the east side, creating a "T" shaped plan. The teacher's house and the west bay project forward, with a wide buttress situated between the two central windows.
The school has a weathered plinth and a moulded sill band. The entrance features a boarded door with false strap hinges and a shouldered head set in a stone-dressed opening. This door is sheltered by a lean-to hood, supported by decorative wooden brackets and stone corbels. The main windows are three-light, stone-dressed, and mullioned, with steeply weathered sills and trefoil heads. The central buttress displays the date and "AD" in a trefoil-headed incised panel. The west bay contains 1-and-2-light flat-headed windows, while the west gable features a three-light mullion and transom window with trefoil heads.
The teacher's house has a hexagonal bay with flat-headed lights. The stonework above the window heads is splayed outward at the corners to create square quoins at the first-floor level. The gables have copings, and there is a tall octagonal single-flue chimney above the roof of the west bay, along with a heavy wide bell-cote positioned on the main ridge. The roof is adorned with crested ridge tiles.
Inside, the school consists of a single room with arched braced roof trusses.
Local climate
Ridley County Primary School receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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