St Merryn School is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. School, school house.

St Merryn School

WRENN ID
outer-pewter-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1988
Type
School, school house
OS grid reference
SW 877 735
Coordinates
50.52323, -4.99637
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Merryn School is a board school and school house built around 1876, designed by Silvanus Trevail. The building is constructed of stone rubble with brick dressings and features steeply pitched slate roofs with gable ends. The school house is located on the right (east) side, with an entrance near the center of the south range, and the school to the left (west).

The layout includes two large school rooms in the school and an overall 'L' shaped plan for the school house, which has a shallow wing projecting to the front left. The exterior consists of a single-storey school and a two-storey school house, both with roofs of similar height. The entrance features a gabled porch with a shouldered arch. The gable end of the school on the left has a 19th-century triple lancet window with a narrow slit above it. The school house on the right has a two-storey gabled bay with double 19th-century four-bay sash windows and a ventilation slit in the attic, along with a 19th-century four-pane sash window on the first floor to the right. The interiors have not been inspected.

Local climate

St Merryn School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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