Library Block, Nelson Thomlinson School is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1967. School, library.
Library Block, Nelson Thomlinson School
- WRENN ID
- buried-rampart-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1967
- Type
- School, library
- Address
- Library Block, Nelson Thomlinson School, Longmoor Lane, Wigton
- OS grid reference
- NY 258 480
- Coordinates
- 54.82158, -3.15568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Library Block at Nelson Thomlinson School is a Grade II listed building located on Longmoor Lane in Wigton. Originally a grammar school, it now serves as the library block of a comprehensive school. The building is dated and inscribed above the entrance with "NELSON SCHOOL WIGTON FOUNDED AD 1896" along with a coat of arms, and is likely designed by C.J. Ferguson.
Constructed from red sandstone ashlar, the building features a steeply pitched roof made of graduated greenslate, complete with coped gables and a square stone chimney stack. Atop the structure is a square wooden cupola with a pointed spire and lucarnes. The large, two-storey building is arranged in a U-shape and includes a prominent off-centre canted bay window with stone mullions and leaded panes, which projects above the eaves and is topped with a shaped parapet.
To the left of the bay window, the entrance is framed by a stone architrave. The facade is further enhanced by additional large stone-mullioned windows with leaded panes. A projecting two-storey gabled extension on the left mirrors the window style, while a lower gabled extension on the right features a porch with the inscription and date. There are also contemporary gabled extensions to the right, which include stone-mullioned windows. The 20th-century extensions are considered to be of no interest.
Local climate
Library Block, Nelson Thomlinson 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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