Old National School and Attached Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1999. School. 1 related planning application.
Old National School and Attached Steps
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1999
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old National School and Attached Steps, Tywardreath and Par, PL24 2QG
- OS grid reference
- SX 083 543
- Coordinates
- 50.35813, -4.69517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old National School, likely built in the 1840s, is a Tudor Gothic style building located in Tywardreath. Constructed from local rubble with granite dressings, it features dry Delabole slate roofs with coped gables. The school consists of two parallel ranges that face the street, connected at the front by an entrance passage. On the left side, there is a wing set back, and on the right, an entrance porch.
The exterior is a single storey with a symmetrical two-window front, flanked by gable ends and an entrance bay that includes a four-stage gabled bellcote tower positioned between two pairs of four-centred arched doorways that are set back. These doorways are moulded and have hoodmoulds. The building also features four-light transomed mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and four-centred arched lights, as well as ventilators in the gables. The porch on the far right has a shouldered doorway, and the side elevations include moulded wooden transomed mullioned windows.
In front of the doorways, there is a broad flight of granite steps, and a ramp was added on the left side in 1990. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Old National School and Attached Steps sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 1 application
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