Dorothy School is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. School.

Dorothy School

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1993
Type
School
Address
Dorothy School, St George's Road, Truro
OS grid reference
SW 820 449
Coordinates
50.26408, -5.05915
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dorothy School is a schoolroom located next to the Church of St George, built around 1860. It is constructed from killas rubble with granite dressings and features a steep dry Delabole slate roof. The building has a granite stack over the gable and a larger stone stack near the south gable, along with a cast-iron ogee gutter. The design is in the Tudor Revival style with a rectangular plan.

The north gable end includes a central 5-light mullioned window with a relieving arch above. To the right, there is a 20th-century wing. The west range has a single window and a 20th-century wing on the left, a central 3-light window, and a blocked chamfered doorway on the right. The east range also has a single window, featuring a 3-light wooden transomed mullioned window towards the left and a lean-to porch at the far left, which has a pair of V-jointed boarded doors to its right. The roof slopes down to the right of the window, meeting a flat-roofed wing in front that has a central flat-headed chamfered doorway and a 2-light window on the right-hand return.

Inside, there is an original corbelled granite fireplace in the north-east corner and wall posts on corbels supporting the roof structure, which is otherwise concealed by a 20th-century ceiling. The building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Dorothy School receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% 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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