Alves Primary School With Enclosing Wall is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1989. School. 3 related planning applications.
Alves Primary School With Enclosing Wall
- WRENN ID
- nether-span-oak
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1989
- Type
- School
- Address
- Alves Primary School With Enclosing Wall, IV30 8UR
- OS grid reference
- NJ 132 621
- Coordinates
- 57.64074, -3.45411
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Alves Primary School, built by A and W Reid between 1873 and 1874 and dated 1875, is a single-storey, gabled, five-bay school with a symmetrical south-facing frontage. The building features tooled rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The central bay is advanced and gabled, containing a hoodmoulded doorway with a datestone above, flanked by windows with shouldered lintels. The outer bays are also advanced and feature mullioned and transomed windows. At the eastern end, there are two gabled bays, and the western elevation has a projecting canted wing that includes the entrance.
The windows are fitted with multi-pane glazing, and the building is adorned with decorative bargeboards, coped stacks, and slate roofs.
Additionally, there is a former infant school hall, which is a small single-storey, three-bay gabled structure. It is constructed of tooled rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, featuring an advanced and gabled central porch with flanking bipartite windows and similar fenestration at the rear. This hall also has multi-pane glazing, an end stack, and a slate roof.
The school complex is enclosed by a rubble stone wall.
Local climate
Alves Primary School With Enclosing Wall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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