Ballykelly Primary School, 8 Glenhead Road, Ballykelly, Limavady, Co Londonderry is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Causeway Coast and Glens local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Ballykelly Primary School, 8 Glenhead Road, Ballykelly, Limavady, Co Londonderry
- WRENN ID
- guardian-thatch-oak
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Constituency
- East Londonderry MP: Mr Gregory Campbell (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- C 629 221
- Coordinates
- 55.04294, -7.01577
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Ballykelly Primary School is a post-war primary school constructed between 1966 and 1979. Designed by McCutcheon & Wilkinson of Ballymena, with John Wilkinson as partner in charge, and built by J Kennedy & Co of Macosquin, the original main block is a two-storey structure with a profiled, concrete tiled roof arranged in a T-plan. The facades are generally faced with pinkish concrete brick, with random basalt rubble used to highlight the entrances in the single-storey projections. The windows feature a combination of large and small openings, creating an appearance typical of 1960s school buildings. Initially designed to accommodate 11 classrooms, the building was subsequently extended to provide the current 20 classrooms for infants and juniors. This flat-roofed extension, measuring approximately 30 by 36 square meters, is attached to the southern end of the main block and includes a central, open garden court. While the exterior wall facings of the extension are similar to the main block, the detailing differs slightly. The property is owned by the Education Board and remains in use as a school.
Local climate
Ballykelly Primary School, 8 Glenhead Road, Ballykelly, Limavady, Co Londonderry sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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