Burgh School, Bedford Place, Alloa is a Grade C listed building in the Clackmannanshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 June 1972. School.

Burgh School, Bedford Place, Alloa

WRENN ID
veiled-alcove-raven
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Clackmannanshire
Constituency
Alloa and Grangemouth MP: Brian Leishman (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 June 1972
Type
School
OS grid reference
NS 884 926
Coordinates
56.1131, -3.79556
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Burgh School, located on Bedford Place in Alloa, was designed by John Melvin & Son in 1875. This single-storey building features a baronial style with an asymmetrical layout, highlighted by a circular entrance tower topped with a conical roof and a belfry. The south side includes a basement storey. The exterior is constructed with red sandstone coursers and yellow sandstone dressings, and it has mullioned windows along with crowstepped gables that are slated. There are later additions, including an interesting part Art Nouveau housewifery department designed by Kerr and McCulloch.

Local climate

Burgh School, Bedford Place, Alloa sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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