Council School is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. School. 1 related planning application.
Council School
- WRENN ID
- eastward-mortar-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- School
- Address
- Council School, 123, Longwestgate, Scarborough, YO11 1RQ
- OS grid reference
- TA 047 889
- Coordinates
- 54.28542, -0.39177
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Council School, located at No 123 Longwestgate, is an early 19th-century large house that stands three storeys tall with a basement, constructed of white brick. It features a first-floor sill course and a rebuilt parapet, topped with a gable end slate roof. The building has five symmetrical windows, although the ones on the right side at the first and ground floors have been altered and lowered. The remaining windows are recessed sashes with intact glazing bars, adorned with flat stucco arches.
The central entrance boasts a three-panel door set in a panelled reveal and soffit, topped by a semi-circular fanlight. A large stucco porch enhances the entrance, supported by two pairs of wall pilasters and two pairs of columns with Ionic capitals, along with an entablature. The area is enclosed by early 15th-century cast iron spearhead railings, which feature a band of linked circles and standards with similar panels. To the left, there is a late 19th-century school block made of brick and stone, showcasing Gothic details and a pyramid finial capped roof on its square tower.
Nos 119 to 135 Longwestgate form a cohesive group with this building.
Local climate
Council School 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 greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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