Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. School building. 2 related planning applications.
Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School
- WRENN ID
- pitched-stair-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1986
- Type
- School building
- Address
- Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School, High Street, Winsford, CW7 2AU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 646 663
- Coordinates
- 53.19318, -2.52995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School is a former primary school, now part of a secondary school, built in 1906. It is constructed of red Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building is single storey.
The street front has three central bays that project slightly beneath a gable. This central gabled section is supported by four ashlar pilaster buttresses with swept offsets and ball finials. The windows have ashlar surrounds, with the central window featuring 4 x 5 panes and the lateral windows having 3 x 5 panes. The gable is topped with ashlar coping and includes a keyed ovolo in a square ashlar piece at the center. The gable also has consoles on either side and an open pediment that contains the Delamere arms, with the datestone located below. On either side of the central section, there are windows of 3 x 5 panes with flat semi-dormer heads supported by stone brackets, and at the far left and right, there are windows of 2 x 4 panes, also with ashlar surrounds. The right-hand corner of the building features quoins, and there is an octagonal bellcote at the center of the ridge, which has a splayed lower body, louvred openings in the middle, and terminates in an octagonal spire.
To the left of the main block, there are two projecting gabled wings, with the right wing projecting slightly more than the left. Both wings have stone bands, coping stones, and pyramidal finials. Each wing features a central window of 4 x 5 panes, flanked by lateral windows of 3 x 4 panes. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Old Primary School block at Verdin Comprehensive School receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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