School Associated with the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. School.
School Associated with the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady
- WRENN ID
- fossil-rubblework-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- School
- Address
- School Associated with the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, Abbey Road, TQ2 5NJ
- OS grid reference
- SX 913 640
- Coordinates
- 50.46625, -3.53228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School associated with the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady is a building dating from 1857, designed by J Hansom. It is constructed from local grey limestone rubble with freestone dressings and has a slate roof, featuring stacks with stone shafts, some of which are old octagonal shafts. The school is part of a group that includes a church and a presbytery, and it has a T-plan layout.
The exterior consists of a two-storey block at the northeast with a schoolroom at the southwest end. The two-storey block has a three-window arrangement on the northeast end, with a small gable at the front right and a hipped roof porch accessed from the right side through a shouldered doorway. The porch includes shouldered windows with stone architraves. To the left of the porch, there is a paired shouldered window, and above the porch, a small first-floor two-light window. Under the gable, a tall window has been converted into a glazed door in the 20th century. The left side of the two-storey block features paired and triple-shouldered windows. The schoolroom on the left has a four-window front with triple shouldered windows. To the right, there is a two-storey porch block with a shouldered doorway flanked by one-light windows and a pair of chamfered lancets above. The interior has not been inspected but may contain interesting features.
Local climate
School Associated with the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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