Former National School is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. School.
Former National School
- WRENN ID
- strange-parapet-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former National School, Church Street, Penryn
- OS grid reference
- SW 784 346
- Coordinates
- 50.1706, -5.10406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former National School, now a hall, was built in 1837. It features a front made of granite ashlar with a plinth and rusticated quoins. The building has pointed hoodmoulds and a cavetto-moulded cornice at the parapet, which is interrupted by a central open pediment. The roof is hipped and covered with asbestos slate, and it has two gabled dormers, while the larger rear wing is covered with scantle slate. The structure consists of a rectangular front range with parallel rear wings at right angles, with the deeper wing on the right spanning the river. It is a single-storey building with a symmetrical Gothic-style road frontage that has four windows arranged in a 2:1:2 bay pattern. The windows are blind ashlar with pointed arches, and there is a central doorway also with a pointed arch. The rear of the building has old windows that are boarded over and set under segmental brick arches. Inside, there is a scissor-truss roof structure in the main roof. This building is a distinguished example of its type.
Local climate
Former National School receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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