Farley Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1994. School.
Farley Primary School
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-brick-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1994
- Type
- School
- Address
- Farley Primary School, Pitton and Farley
- OS grid reference
- SU 224 295
- Coordinates
- 51.06514, -1.68067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farley Primary School is a school building constructed in 1867 by the architect George Aitchison. It is made of red brick and features hipped Welsh slate roofs with a brick stack. The building has a rectangular plan, with the schoolmaster's house located to the right of the front entrance.
The one-storey schoolroom has broad bracketed eaves and small-paned windows, which are arranged in three semi-circular arches on the left side and in a smaller opening under a flat arch on the right side. The entrance consists of half-glazed doors set within a moulded and slightly projecting architrave, which has an outer brick moulding and a splayed cornice that rises to the eaves. There are also moulded cill and impost courses.
The two-storey master's house features broad bracketed eaves and a gable facing to the left. It has pilasters that divide a three-light window with flat brick arches above 6/6-pane sashes, and a similar arch above a 1/1-pane ground-floor sash. To the right, there is a lean-to porch with a shouldered arch for the doorway, which is positioned below two 4/4-pane sashes under similar arches. The rear of the building includes similar arched windows for the schoolroom and glazing bar sashes for the master's house.
The interior retains original joinery, showcasing a carefully detailed and well-composed design by a notable local architect. Aitchison also designed the primary school at East Knoyle.
Local climate
Farley Primary School receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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