Stone-built portico of St Georges School is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. School.

Stone-built portico of St Georges School

WRENN ID
scattered-bracket-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wigan
Constituency
Leigh and Atherton MP: Jo Platt (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1987
Type
School
Address
Stone-built portico of St Georges School, School Street, Tyldesley
OS grid reference
SD 688 019
Coordinates
53.51347, -2.47068
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stone-built portico of St George's School in Tyldesley dates back to 1829, with alterations made in 1858. It features dressed stone and a slate roof, presenting a plain symmetrical seven-bay, two-storey layout, with two additional bays added to the right later in the century. The design is in the Gothick style. The doors in the first and seventh bays are set beneath pointed arches, with the latter bay now blocked. Each bay on both floors has a Y-tracery window, and the two-bay addition is styled similarly. A central plaque notes: “TYLDESLEY CHURCH SCHOOLS/ MDCCCXXIX/ REBUILT AND ENLARGED/ MDCCCLVIII”. The structure includes a projecting plinth, a coved cornice, and a hipped roof behind a blocking course. The rear elevation is similar but lacks tracery in the windows and is partly obscured by later brick extensions and a flying corridor at the first-floor level.

Local climate

Stone-built portico of St Georges School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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