Tawstock Church of England School is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. School.

Tawstock Church of England School

WRENN ID
south-window-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1987
Type
School
OS grid reference
SS 552 298
Coordinates
51.04938, -4.06664
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tawstock Church of England School is a school with origins in the 19th century, but it was largely rebuilt after a fire in 1940. The building is constructed of roughcast rendered stone rubble and brick, topped with hipped thatch roofs. It consists of two connected rectangular ranges, each containing a classroom, with the left-hand range set back slightly.

The left-hand range features a single window with six lights and a transom. The right-hand range has canted oriel windows with seven lights each, accompanied by thatched canopies, flanking a large square window with six lights and glazing bars. There is also an oriel window with seven lights at the left end and two smaller oriels with four lights each at the right end, both with thatched canopies. The thatch roofs have deeply overhanging eaves supported by timber posts, creating verandahs at the front of each range and along the sides of the right-hand range, with eyebrow dormers aligned with the window openings.

Local climate

Tawstock Church of England School receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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