Church of England Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1978. School.

Church of England Primary School

WRENN ID
ruined-tin-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1978
Type
School
Address
Church of England Primary School, Church Road, Great Hallingbury
OS grid reference
TL 511 196
Coordinates
51.85522, 0.19395
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of England Primary School, built around 1848, is a single-storey village school constructed of red brick featuring a black diaper pattern of headers, designed in a restrained Jacobean style. The building has a symmetrical H-plan layout with a central porch cross-wing that projects further. The roofs are covered with stone slates, although the rear and part of the side have been replaced with concrete slates. The gable ends of the wings include saddle stones and Portland stone kneelers, while the eaves are supported by moulded brick corbels.

On either side of the porch, there are three buttresses with stone offsets that articulate the main block. The school features three four-centred arched doorways with chamfered edges; one doorway in the central porch is blocked and has an inscribed plaque above it. The window openings are chamfered with flat gauged brick arches, and the casements have lozenge pattern glazing bars, with two lights in the main block and three lights in the crosswings. Additionally, there are three tall cruciform plan chimney stacks on the ridges of the crossovers, along with two boiler vents and a bellcote symmetrically placed on the main ridge. This school is a carefully detailed example of its period and is well positioned in relation to the nearby church.

Local climate

Church of England Primary School sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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