Castle House School is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1978. School. 6 related planning applications.
Castle House School
- WRENN ID
- patient-granite-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1978
- Type
- School
- Address
- Castle House School, Chetwynd End, Newport, TF10 7JE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 744 194
- Coordinates
- 52.77246, -2.38064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle House School, formerly known as Merevale, dates from the late 18th century with early 19th-century and modern alterations. The building has an irregular shape and may have originally consisted of three separate houses. It is constructed of red brick, engraved stucco, and painted stone, featuring a stone plinth. The structure is two storeys plus an attic and has three storeys in parts. It includes sash and casement windows, with some modern casements added.
On the left side, there is a stuccoed wing with a projecting splayed bay that has a sash window in a plain architrave with a triple keyblock. This wing also features a late 19th-century splayed bay window on the ground storey and a semi-circular tripartite window on the second storey, all topped by a shaped gable with a scrolled cartouche and a segmental pediment.
The right brick wing has two slightly projecting bays. The left bay has a stone-coped gable with reused human head kneelers and a casement window in a stuccoed scrolled surround. The right bay features a window with early 19th-century 'Y' glazing bars, a wood balcony with slat balusters, and a shaped gable with a segmental pediment above. A modern doorway has been added to the left, alongside a recessed doorway flanked by half-round Tuscan pilasters, which has a door with attractive 19th-century coloured glazing. The building has corbelled eaves and is covered with tiles.
Local climate
Castle House School receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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