School, Covington is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1997. School. 2 related planning applications.
School, Covington
- WRENN ID
- unlit-zinc-swallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1997
- Type
- School
- Address
- School, Covington, ML12 6NE
- OS grid reference
- NS 976 391
- Coordinates
- 55.6351, -3.62667
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a school constructed in the later 19th century. It has a single-storey, rectangular plan and is made of painted rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings. The roof is slate, featuring moulded bargeboards at the overhanging gables. Notable architectural details include stop-chamfered doorcases and a variety of timber sash and case windows, which are arranged as single, bi-partite, and tri-partite 2-pane designs with chamfered margins. There is also a single coped stack.
On the front elevation, the main block is centrally located and flanked by two slightly advanced gabled bays, each containing a bipartite window and decorated with diamond pattern moulded ornament at the gable. To the left return, there is a single window, while the right return features a tripartite window. A slightly lower block is set back to the left and includes a door and window. To the right, there is a small entrance porch that is also set back, containing a door and a window to the right return.
The rear elevation is plain, featuring two rooflights and a window at the far right. The interior has not been seen, but it is likely to retain original fittings such as boarded panelling and doors.
Local climate
School, Covington sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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