County Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. School.

County Primary School

WRENN ID
turning-minaret-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
School
Address
County Primary School, Castle Street, Winkleigh
OS grid reference
SS 630 080
Coordinates
50.85536, -3.94646
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The County Primary School, built in 1876, features roughly coursed rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof. The building is designed in the Gothic Early English Style and is a single storey structure. The front range is originally divided into three sections, with a symmetrical three-bay front that includes a large central gable. This gable has a tall three-light ogee-headed window, while the two outer bays each contain a pair of smaller similar windows. Between the windows are buttresses. At the gable-end wing behind each end, there are four-light windows along with small gabled porches that project outward. A stone belfry is located at the right gable-end. There are 20th-century additions at the left-hand end. The interior has not been inspected. The school was established as a mixed Board School, as noted in Kelly's Directory from 1902.

Local climate

County Primary School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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