Roman Catholic School is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. A C19 School.
Roman Catholic School
- WRENN ID
- lone-spindle-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- School
- Address
- Roman Catholic School, Fernyhalgh Lane, Broughton
- OS grid reference
- SD 553 341
- Coordinates
- 53.80131, -2.67934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic School, now serving as a parish centre and nursery school, was built in 1836, as indicated on the parapet. It features dressed sandstone in watershot coursing and slate roofs, designed in an H-plan layout. The building is symmetrical, consisting of a 3-bay, 2-storey main section with single-storey crosswings that originally housed the schoolrooms.
In a simple classical style, it includes a plinth, bands, a moulded cornice, a low parapet, and gable end stacks. The wings have corner pilaster strips and pedimented gables. The central doorway of the main house, which is now mostly blocked, has a moulded architrave and cornice. The ground floor has two windows, and each wing features a single window, all set in recesses that rise from the plinth. These windows are vertical rectangular shapes with altered glazing.
The centre of the pediment on the main house is inscribed with "MDCCCXXXVI," while the pediments of the wings display stone tablets labeled "GIRLS" and "BOYS." Each wing extends three bays in length, with the left wing having a short flat-roofed extension that runs the full length of the return wall.
Local climate
Roman Catholic School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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