Great Corby School is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. School. 3 related planning applications.
Great Corby School
- WRENN ID
- spare-roof-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School
- Address
- Great Corby School, Wetheral, Carlisle, CA4 8NE
- OS grid reference
- NY 475 546
- Coordinates
- 54.88368, -2.81965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Corby School is a building dating from 1845, constructed for the trustees of the bequest of Henry Howard of Corby Castle, with an extension added in 1882. The original structure features dressed red sandstone walls, a slate roof, and brick chimney stacks. It is two storeys high with three bays and includes a projecting two-storey porch. This porch has a crow-stepped gable and a corbelled-out dormer with a lancet window above a Tudor entrance arch, which has hood-moulds on both sides. The entrance has a 20th-century door. The school has sash windows with glazing bars and hood-moulds, stone modillions at the gutters, and coped gables with kneelers. The 1882 extension is a single storey with four bays, buttressed sandstone walls, and a steeply pitched slate roof featuring decorative ridge tiles and a slated wooden bellcote. It includes four pairs of sash windows with single glazing bars. The listing does not cover the 20th-century additions to the right.
Local climate
Great Corby School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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