Roman Catholic Primary School and Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1978. School, schoolhouse. 1 related planning application.
Roman Catholic Primary School and Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- fading-lantern-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1978
- Type
- School, schoolhouse
- Address
- Roman Catholic Primary School and Schoolhouse, Gargrave Road, Skipton, BD23 1PJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 987 518
- Coordinates
- 53.96234, -2.02089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Primary School and Schoolhouse, dated 1854, is located at the entrance to the drive leading to the church and convent. This two-storey stone building features a steep slate roof with a bell turret positioned diagonally on the ridge. The ground floor includes a central gabled porch with a pointed arched doorway, flanked by four three-light windows that have pointed cusped heads, rectangular labels, and head-stops. Above these windows is a row of quatrefoils. The upper floor displays cusped windows arranged in a pattern of three, two, three, two, and three lights, with the two-light windows set in gabled half-dormers. The building is supported by buttresses. Attached to the main structure, the schoolhouse is also two storeys high, featuring a plain doorway with a cornice and fanlight, one window on the ground floor, and two windows on the upper floor.
Local climate
Roman Catholic Primary School and Schoolhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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