Woodbury Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. School, house. 1 related planning application.
Woodbury Primary School
- WRENN ID
- roaming-finial-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1986
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- Woodbury Primary School, Town Lane, EX5 1NB
- OS grid reference
- SY 012 872
- Coordinates
- 50.67684, -3.39947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodbury Primary School is a school and attached headmaster's house built in 1871, designed by R M Fulford. The building is constructed of brick with Beerstone and sandstone detailing, featuring gabled-end and half-hipped tiled roofs. The school consists of a main range and a rear wing, with the headmaster's house forming a cross wing at the southeast end of the main range. The main building is two storeys high, while the school itself is a tall single-storey open hall, slightly lower than the house.
The northwest gable end of the school is dominated by a four-light window, each light having a trefoil head, topped with a superordinate arch made of alternating red and white stone voussoirs. The tympanum above features a single quatrefoil, and there are clasping buttresses and a projecting weathered plinth. The rear wing includes lancet windows and a partially dismantled lateral stack with offsets.
The headmaster's house has a southwest gable end facing the street, with a half-hipped roof that is sprocketed on the left side to cover a side entrance and the stairwell. The stairwell is lit by a two-light pointed window set between the two storeys, with a string course that rises to form a hoodmould. There is a two-light window on the first floor, each light also trefoil headed, and a similar three-light window on the ground floor, with all three windows placed asymmetrically. The right-hand side elevation of the house features two external lateral stacks, which are corbelled out at the first-floor level, and two two-light casement windows that break the eaves line.
The school is prominently situated on a corner site and is noted for its strikingly asymmetrical design. Despite the partial dismantling of the tall Tudor-style stacks and the addition of a late 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed brick extension that obscures the original principal front, the building remains impressive.
Local climate
Woodbury Primary School receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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