Sir John Offley Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle-under-Lyme local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1985. School. 1 related planning application.
Sir John Offley Primary School
- WRENN ID
- roaming-sentry-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Constituency
- Newcastle-under-Lyme MP: Adam Jogee (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1985
- Type
- School
- Address
- Sir John Offley Primary School, Izaac Walton Way, Madeley, CW3 9PH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 772 443
- Coordinates
- 52.99627, -2.3404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sir John Offley Primary School is a school built in 1875 and 1887. It features coursed sandstone blocks resting on a high chamfered plinth, with ashlar dressings and quoins, and has machine tiled roofs adorned with ornamental cresting. The building has an asymmetrical, multiform plan in the 17th-century Vernacular style.
The single-storey hall and classrooms are illuminated by a large 8-light mullion window in a projecting gable on the left side, and by two gabled half-dormers on the right. Beneath the half-dormers are two lower, hip-roofed porches added in 1887. The lower range against the right-hand gable end also dates from 1887. There are two prominent tapering external stacks with round shafts and moulded capping, one on the main range and one on the 1887 addition. The principal entrance is located at the rear through a mid-20th-century red brick addition.
The school was originally endowed by the will of Sir John Offley of Madeley Manor, who died in 1658, and the 19th-century building was financed by Hungerford, Baron of Crewe.
Local climate
Sir John Offley Primary School receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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