Schoolroom of Wesley Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Schoolroom.

Schoolroom of Wesley Methodist Church

WRENN ID
iron-tallow-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Type
Schoolroom
Address
Schoolroom of Wesley Methodist Church, Castle Street, Launceston
OS grid reference
SX 331 847
Coordinates
50.63809, -4.36111
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The schoolroom of the Wesley Methodist Church is a nonconformist chapel built in 1890 by Hine and Odgers of Plymouth, with W. Broad as the contractor and Oke of Launceston responsible for painting and glazing. The building features polychrome slatestone and other stone arranged to course, with granite quoins and Polyphant stone dressings, topped by a slate roof with a coped front gable. It has a rectangular plan, with the schoolroom situated above the reading room, and is two storeys high. The symmetrical gable end facing the street has a one-window range on the first floor, featuring a quatrefoil with a finial and kneelers above a five-light transomed mullioned window that retains its original coloured glass. This window is flanked by king mullions and is situated over a central doorway with a four-centred arch, which has an original diamond-panelled door and a blind overlight, flanked by two-light cross windows with a stepped hoodmould above. The side walls are rendered and have segmental-arched openings with casements that include glazing bars. Inside, the schoolroom has simple plastered walls and ceilings, a boarded dado, and panelled doors. There is also a stained glass memorial window by Fouracre dedicated to John Dingley.

Local climate

Schoolroom of Wesley Methodist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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