Village Youth Centre on Site of Cowleys School is a Grade II listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1988. A Victorian Youth centre.
Village Youth Centre on Site of Cowleys School
- WRENN ID
- inner-floor-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Holland
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Youth centre
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Village Youth Centre on Site of Cowleys School, School Lane, Donington
- OS grid reference
- TF 211 356
- Coordinates
- 52.90473, -0.19948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Youth Centre, located on the site of Cowleys School, is a former schoolroom block built around 1861. It features red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings, a tiled roof, and stone coped gables. The building has an L-plan layout and is a single storey with a six-bay front. The right-hand bay is advanced and has a separate gable. At the angle of the building, there are two Tudor arched doorways with ashlar surrounds, featuring leaf decoration in the spandrels, and these are covered by a porch with a tiled roof supported by braced timber posts. To the left, there are four ashlar cross mullioned windows, which are subdivided by raked buttresses. On the right, there is a three-light window of a similar style, and in the gable, there is a rectangular leaded light. This building was constructed as an addition to T. Cowley's original foundation established in 1719, serving as a Junior School.
Local climate
Village Youth Centre on Site of Cowleys School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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