Townhead Primary School, St Andrew Street, Brechin is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 April 1979. School. 2 related planning applications.

Townhead Primary School, St Andrew Street, Brechin

WRENN ID
fallow-arch-furze
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 April 1979
Type
School
Address
Townhead Primary School, St Andrew Street, Brechin, DD9 6JJ
OS grid reference
NO 595 605
Coordinates
56.73473, -2.66221
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Townhead Primary School, located on St Andrew Street in Brechin, is an early 19th-century mansion that features two storeys and a basement, along with a single-storey and basement wing. The front facade has three windows and is constructed of ashlar stone, with rusticated quoins. The central doorway is highlighted by painted anta pilasters, a fanlight, and a flyover stair. The windows on both the ground and first floors are architraved, with those on the ground floor also featuring cornices and aprons. At the eaves, there is a main cornice blocking course. The rear stair tower wing has two windows and a similar design, but without the quoins. The roofs are slated and piended at the wing, and the original glazing remains intact.

Local climate

Townhead Primary School, St Andrew Street, Brechin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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