Congregational Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 2015. Sunday school. 2 related planning applications.
Congregational Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- tangled-cellar-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 2015
- Type
- Sunday school
- Address
- Congregational Sunday School, Former Sunday School, Castle Street, Launceston
- OS grid reference
- SX 331 847
- Coordinates
- 50.63886, -4.36158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Congregational Sunday School, built in 1883 by architect Otho Bathurst Peter and constructed by William Burt, is a two-storey building made of brick with a façade featuring polychromatic granite, limestone, and sandstones, topped with slate roofs.
The main Gothic façade, which faces south towards Northgate Street, is of particular interest. It includes polychromatic stone dressings, such as quoins, and is capped by a plain stone eaves cornice. The central entrance features a panelled door with a fanlight, set within a moulded stone doorcase that has a pointed head and keystone, connecting to a decorative storey band. Flanking the entrance, the bays have openings with ashlar architraves and low pointed heads, adorned with Gothic glazing bars on the sashes. The first floor displays a central blank window beneath a Gothic arch, which is embellished with a trefoil panel in relief and a crest below. On either side, there are tripartite round-arched openings with timber sashes and stone cills. The west flank wall is rendered and includes a small modern opening at the ground floor left. Additionally, the west side of the school room features five Gothic-arched openings. The building has undergone alterations in the 20th century.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Congregational Sunday School 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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