Railings to Highfield Infant and Junior Schools is a Grade II listed building in the Erewash local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1986. Railings.
Railings to Highfield Infant and Junior Schools
- WRENN ID
- patient-pavement-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Erewash
- Constituency
- Erewash MP: Adam Thompson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1986
- Type
- Railings
- Address
- Railings to Highfield Infant and Junior Schools, Wellington Street
- OS grid reference
- SK 483 347
- Coordinates
- 52.90808, -1.28298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railings and gates at Highfield Infant and Junior Schools were constructed in 1911 and are designed in the Art Nouveau style. They are made of cast iron and brick, featuring terracotta and stone dressings. The railings encircle three sides of a large square that encloses the two schools. They rest on a deep brick plinth with moulded blue brick copings and square piers placed at regular intervals, which have terracotta cornices beneath stone copings. The rails are topped with nailhead-type designs, and each set of railings includes a decorative panel with scrolled ironwork at the top. These railings are included for their group value context.
Local climate
Railings to Highfield Infant and Junior Schools sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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