Church of England School is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1987. School. 5 related planning applications.
Church of England School
- WRENN ID
- fallen-newel-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1987
- Type
- School
- Address
- Church of England School, Corsley, BA12 7QF
- OS grid reference
- ST 827 467
- Coordinates
- 51.21948, -2.24778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of England School, built in 1847, is a primary school located in Corsley Village. It features coursed rubble stone construction and a Welsh slate roof with coped verges and staddlestones, along with an ashlar stack on the right. The building has a T-plan layout, with a single-storey school section and a two-storey teacher's house attached to the right.
The entrance is marked by a gabled stone porch that has diagonal buttresses and a planked door with ornamental hinges set in a pointed chamfered doorway. This doorway is adorned with an inscription and foliated terminals on the hoodmould. To the left of the porch, there are two-light hollow-mullioned windows, and the schoolhouse in the cross wing to the right features two-light mullioned casements on both the ground and first floors. The right side of the building has two additional two-light mullioned casements.
At the rear, there is a later 19th-century wing that includes brick bands and three-light mullioned windows, along with a lean-to porch with a planked door to the left. The back of the main range includes 20th-century flat-roofed extensions. Inside, the school retains ribbed or four-panelled doors, although modern ceilings have been inserted in what were once open-roofed schoolrooms, revealing stone mask corbels supporting the roof trusses. The school was established as a gift from the Marquess of Bath.
Local climate
Church of England School receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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