School and School House and Garden Walls to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1989. School, house. 4 related planning applications.
School and School House and Garden Walls to Front
- WRENN ID
- hidden-mortar-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1989
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- School and School House and Garden Walls to Front, North Petherwin, PL15 8NE
- OS grid reference
- SX 266 909
- Coordinates
- 50.69185, -4.45609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a board school and school house with garden walls at the front, constructed in 1875 by Silvanus Trevail. It is made of local stone rubble with granite and yellow brick dressings around the openings. The roof is steeply pitched with slate tiles, featuring gable ends and pierced ridge tiles, along with brick axial stacks.
The layout includes a long range with cross wings at either end; the left cross-wing serves as the master's house. The building is designed in a Gothic style. The exterior consists of a two-storey house and a single-storey school, with a façade that has a 2:3:2:3:2 bay arrangement. Each end features a projecting gabled cross-wing with diagonal buttresses, while the centre has a small gabled section flanked by buttresses. The master's house on the left has tall sash windows on both floors, with pointed arch heads on the first floor. The right cross-wing contains tripartite lancet windows. The gabled centrepiece features a pair of lancets and a quatrefoil date panel above, with two sash windows on either side in the main range. There are doorways leading to the master's house and the school, each with a quatrefoil light above and shouldered heads on the window openings and doorways.
The front garden wall, dating from the 19th century, is built of stone rubble with brick and granite dressings.
Local climate
School and School House and Garden Walls to Front sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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