Central County Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. School.
Central County Primary School
- WRENN ID
- weathered-eave-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- School
- Address
- Central County Primary School, Church Square, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 228 245
- Coordinates
- 51.0153, -3.10056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Central County Primary School is a Gothic building constructed in 1866, possibly designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, who was involved in the restoration of the parish church located opposite. The school features a two-storey asymmetrical facade with a large gabled range that projects forward on the right side and a second gabled range to the left. The walls are made of rubble with ashlar dressings, and the roofs are tiled.
Two gablets rise above the first-floor windows at the center of the roof, and all gables are topped with stone copings and kneelers. There is a weathered sill band and a buttress in the center of the front, along with a plinth. The facade includes three windows on the left and three large windows in the gabled range on the right. The center first-floor windows and the large window feature pointed arches, stone mullions, and transoms, with plate tracery of three and five lights grouped under cusped oculi. The remaining windows are square-headed, consisting of five and four lights with relieving arches. The coping of the right gable slopes down low at the center, ending above a small pointed doorway that has a projecting stone hood supported by brackets.
This building is part of an important group that includes all the listed buildings in Church Square, along with the Church of St Mary Magdalene and the listed buildings in Hammet Street.
Local climate
Central County Primary School receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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