Friends' School West Central Building is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1989. School. 2 related planning applications.
Friends' School West Central Building
- WRENN ID
- south-shingle-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1989
- Type
- School
- Address
- Friends' School West Central Building, High Green, Great Ayton, TS9 6BJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 562 106
- Coordinates
- 54.48775, -1.13264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Friends' School West Central Building is a school building dated 1842, located on the south side of High Green in Great Ayton. The structure is rendered, featuring a stone plinth and floor bands, with tooled, dressed stone and cill bands on the east side. It has a Lakeland slate roof and stone stacks. The building is three storeys high and has six windows.
On the left side, there are four steps leading to a six-panel double door with a plain overlight above. The windows are 12-pane sash types set in deep reveals with projecting cills. The eaves have a bracketed gutter, and there are two corniced ridge stacks. The east front, which is three storeys and six bays wide, has 16-pane sash windows with segmental heads. At the center, there is a shaped raised parapet featuring a clock face and a date panel. Above this, a square bellcote with a ball finial is positioned.
Local climate
Friends' School West Central Building receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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