Main Building at Appleby Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1951. Educational building. 6 related planning applications.
Main Building at Appleby Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- ruined-obsidian-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1951
- Type
- Educational building
- Address
- Main Building at Appleby Grammar School, Battlebarrow, Appleby-In-Westmorland, CA16 6XU
- OS grid reference
- NY 681 210
- Coordinates
- 54.58327, -2.49466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main building at Appleby Grammar School was built in 1887 and is two storeys high, constructed from grey and red stone with a slate roof featuring red tile cresting. A doorway dated 1671 has been reused from the original grammar school building and features Jacobean strapwork ornament, square pilasters on high plinths, a moulded and shaped doorhead, a studded door, and a moulded inscribed plaque above with a pediment. The Victorian section includes a square porch with a segmental arch, three windows to the left, two to the right, and six above, all with chamfered stone mullions and transoms. To the left is a two-storeyed former master's house with sash and stone mullioned windows. To the right is a chapel wing, which features a four-light Perpendicular style window in the gable.
Local climate
Main Building at Appleby Grammar School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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