Cornwood Church of England School and School Masters House is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1984. School, house.

Cornwood Church of England School and School Masters House

WRENN ID
hollow-spire-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 February 1984
Type
School, house
Address
Cornwood Church of England School and School Masters House, Fore Street, South Hams
OS grid reference
SX 606 598
Coordinates
50.42158, -3.96308
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cornwood Church of England School and School Master's House is a village school and school master's residence, dated 1859. It is constructed of granite ashlar and features polychrome blue and yellow brick with slate roofing. The building has steeply pitched gabled and hipped roofs, with the school master's house located at the west end. It is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The central feature is a two-storeyed gabled porch with a depressed arch. To the right, there is a stone chimneystack with set offs and diagonal brick shafts, and a gabled dormer is located to the left. The windows are pointed arch in style. The school is attached at the back, to the east, and includes three large gabled dormers with pointed arch lights that have colonnettes between them, all set within pointed arch recesses. The right-hand end features a polygonal projecting bay with a steep hipped roof; the base is made of granite with buttresses at the corners, while the upper section is constructed of polychrome brick.

Local climate

Cornwood Church of England School and School Masters House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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