Former Peel School is a Grade II listed building in the Tamworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1992. School.
Former Peel School
- WRENN ID
- empty-copper-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tamworth
- Constituency
- Tamworth MP: Sarah Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1992
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former Peel School, Lichfield Street
- OS grid reference
- SK 204 040
- Coordinates
- 52.63408, -1.69977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Peel School is a Tudor-style building constructed in 1850 by S. Smirke for Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister. It is now part of a housing development. The school has a rectangular plan and is built of brick featuring blue brick diapering and ashlar dressings, topped with a tile roof that has cresting. The structure is one storey high and has a three-window range. Notable architectural features include ashlar-dressed offset buttresses and coped gables, as well as 4-light double-hollow-chamfered-mullioned windows. The central gablet displays an escutcheon on a panel.
On the right side, there is a 4-light transomed window beneath a dripstone and relieving arch, which has a quatrefoil above it. The left side has a similar window, along with two plaques that record the building's history, including the date 1850 in blue brick flanking the quatrefoil. The rear of the building has a small parallel range with two hipped dormers, and there is a 20th-century porch at the re-entrant angle. The interior features arch-braced roof trusses with tracery infill.
Local climate
Former Peel School receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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