St Johns School is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1975. A C19 School. 4 related planning applications.

St Johns School

WRENN ID
iron-zinc-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 April 1975
Type
School
Address
St Johns School, Buxton Old Road, Congleton, CW12 2ES
OS grid reference
SJ 870 636
Coordinates
53.16987, -2.19547
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St John's School, dated 1843, is constructed of coursed freestone. It features a central projecting porch bay with a gable and a three-light window that has stepped, semi-circular headed lights and a sill band on a corbel table. Each side of the building has a two-light mullioned window with semi-circular headed lights and a tympanum with a hood mould. The corners are reinforced with flat buttresses. The entrance consists of a semi-circular headed doorway with a ledged divided door, which has a dated escutcheon above it. The building has coped gabled ends and is roofed with slates. It is linked to the School House by a stone screen wall that contains an archway.

Local climate

St Johns School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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