Downham Church of England School is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. A C19 School.
Downham Church of England School
- WRENN ID
- idle-pier-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1967
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- SD 785 442
- Coordinates
- 53.89374, -2.3283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downham Church of England School is a school building constructed in 1839. It is made of squared limestone with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. The building is one storey high. On either side of the porch, there are 5-light mullioned windows that have an inner hollow chamfer, an outer chamfer, and hoods. The porch itself contains a similar 2-light window and has a moulded open pediment with mutules. Inside the pediment, there is a plaque that reads 'AD 1839'. The door, located in the left-hand return wall of the porch, has a chamfered stone surround. The eaves feature mutules, and both gables are designed as moulded open pediments with mutules. To the south, there is a lower wing that shares similar architectural details. Its front wall includes a chamfered stone door surround and a window to the right with a plain stone surround, which appears to be a recent addition. The southern gable has a 2-light mullioned window.
Local climate
Downham Church of England School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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