Blencogo School is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1985. School.
Blencogo School
- WRENN ID
- second-pewter-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1985
- Type
- School
- Address
- Blencogo School, Bromfield
- OS grid reference
- NY 200 482
- Coordinates
- 54.82257, -3.24606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blencogo School is a building dating from 1854, marked by the inscription GMD (George Dixon) on the chimney breast, along with a shield of arms on another chimney breast. The school is constructed of hammer-dressed red sandstone and features a graduated slate roof with coped gables and candlestick chimney stacks. It is a single-storey structure with three bays.
The gabled porch has an original plank door, supported by ornate cast brackets and fitments. The central large gabled window has diamond panes and consists of four lights, topped with a quatrefoil and hoodmould. To the left, there is a similar two-light window, and chimney breasts flank the central window. An open stone bellcote is positioned to the right of the roof. Additionally, there is a further gabled stone porch to the left, which includes a rear doorway. A 20th-century extension to the left is not of interest.
Local climate
Blencogo School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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