Community Education Centre, Princes Street, Falkirk is a Grade C listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1979. Institute. 4 related planning applications.

Community Education Centre, Princes Street, Falkirk

WRENN ID
tattered-corridor-ivy
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Falkirk
Constituency
Falkirk MP: Euan Stainbank (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 April 1979
Type
Institute
Address
Community Education Centre, Princes Street, Falkirk, FK1 1RE
OS grid reference
NS 888 800
Coordinates
56.0009, -3.78308
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Community Education Centre on Princes Street in Falkirk was built between 1845 and 1846 by John Tait, with an addition by Alexander Black in 1868. This late classical building is one and a half storeys tall and features a prominent single-storey, three-window advanced centre. The windows are architraved and corniced, and the building has a cornice and parapet. On either side of the centre, there are two-storey sections with two windows each. The front is constructed of tough ashlar, while the flanks are made of rubble. The roof is slated and has a piended design, with twin central chimneys. At the rear wing, there is a twin arched entrance.

Local climate

Community Education Centre, Princes Street, Falkirk 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 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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