Trenode School is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Trenode School
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Trenode School, Morval, PL13 1QA
- OS grid reference
- SX 280 583
- Coordinates
- 50.40004, -4.42046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Trenode School is a chapel, built in 1872 as a memorial to Rev. J Buller Kitson, and later converted to a school in the 1960s. It is constructed of stone rubble with freestone dressings, and has a steeply pitched slate roof with a gable end on the west side and a canted end on the east side. A bellcote containing a bell and a brick chimney stack stand on the west gable. The original plan consisted of a single-cell chapel with an apsidal east end and a late 19th or early 20th century cross wing addition on the west side, connected by a small porch.
The elevations are single-storey and regular, with largely intact fenestration. The south elevation has a gabled stone rubble entrance porch on the left, featuring a moulded brick arch and a 19th-century door. To the right is a six-light mullion and transom window with cusped heads to the lights. The east end originally had five lancet windows with plate tracery, with a trefoil over each trefoil-headed light; one window has been replaced by a 20th-century door in a larger opening. The north elevation features a four-light and a two-light mullion and transom windows, also with cusped heads. A rendered cross wing, with a slate roof and gable ends, was added in the late 19th or early 20th century and is connected to the chapel by a low porch.
The interior retains many original fittings, including doors and a memorial plaque. It also features an original ornate open timber roof with wind braces. A previous school and school house in Leyland were converted to the Morval Memorial Hall and a private house in 1965.
Local climate
Trenode School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- 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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