Former School, Including Yard Walls Gate Piers and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1988. School. 3 related planning applications.
Former School, Including Yard Walls Gate Piers and Gates
- WRENN ID
- ragged-minaret-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1988
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former School, Including Yard Walls Gate Piers and Gates, St. Agnes, TR4 8BA
- OS grid reference
- SW 716 475
- Coordinates
- 50.28361, -5.20655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former school, built in 1874, is a board school that includes yard walls, gate piers, and gates. It is constructed from Killas rubble with granite dressings and features an asbestos slate roof with gable-ended wings at the front. The building has a U-shaped plan, with the principal schoolroom in the main range and large classrooms in each of the projecting wings. The principal entrance is through a porch located in the left-hand angle, leading to an entrance lobby, with another porch in the opposite angle. The design incorporates Gothic style elements.
The exterior is single-storey and largely unaltered, except for a small 20th-century porch and extension between the porches, which partially obscures the principal central hall window opening. The left-hand porch has a 4-centred arched doorway, while the right-hand porch features a 2-light transomed window. The gable ends of the classroom wings project at both sides, each adorned with a central 3-light traceried granite mullioned window and a hoodmould. The other elevations have original wooden 3-light windows with transoms.
Surrounding the school playground are rubble coped walls on all four sides. The central part of the front wall includes a wide gateway with rectangular gate piers flanked by low walls. The round-headed granite gate piers are monolithic, with dressed granite copings on the low walls and a 20th-century concrete screen replacing the original railings above. The gates, likely original, are wrought iron with looped bars. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former School, Including Yard Walls Gate Piers and Gates receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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