St Mawgan School is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1988. School. 3 related planning applications.

St Mawgan School

WRENN ID
pitched-turret-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 May 1988
Type
School
Address
St Mawgan School, Mawgan-In-Pydar, TR8 4EP
OS grid reference
SW 873 658
Coordinates
50.45421, -4.99712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Mawgan School is a building constructed in 1863 by William Butterfield, with an extension added in 1876 by Silvanus Trevail. It has undergone some alterations and additions in the 20th century. The structure is made of stone rubble with granite dressings and features a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. There is a rear lateral stack made of stone rubble with a brick shaft, and an axial stack to the right made of stone ashlar with an embattled cornice.

The layout includes a main schoolroom on the left, with a crosswing to the right that contains a large classroom at the front and a smaller room at the rear. The main schoolroom is heated by the rear lateral stack, while the two rooms in the wing are heated by the axial stack. A porch is set at the angle of the crosswing at the front. There are 20th-century additions to the rear left of the building. The design is in the Gothic style.

The exterior features an asymmetrical single-storey front. On the left, there are two 20th-century two-light casements with a buttress between them, and a stone quatrefoil window at the end left. The porch has a shouldered arched doorway with a plank door and a buttress. The gable end of the front wing has two tall lancets with 20th-century glazing and a breather above. The right side has two plate-glass sashes with shouldered arches, and to the right, there is a gable over two larger similar sashes. The left gable end features a large mullion and transom window that is set off-centre to the right, with a chamfered granite lintel and relieving arch. Above this is a corbelled bellcote with a hipped roof and a bell. There is a small single-storey privy attached to the left. At the rear, the gable end of the crosswing has two tall lancets, and the rear of the main schoolroom includes 20th-century single-storey additions with a stone quatrefoil window to the right, similar to the front.

Inside, the main schoolroom has an arched-brace and scissors truss roof, and there is a panelled and glazed partition wall leading to the crosswing.

Local climate

St Mawgan 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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