Trefnant School is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 January 1998. School. 2 related planning applications.

Trefnant School

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 January 1998
Type
School
Address
Trefnant School, Denbigh, LL16 5UF
OS grid reference
SJ 050 705
Coordinates
53.22385, -3.42331
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Trefnant School is an L-shaped school building designed in a restrained Tudor-Gothic style, with an adjoining master's house at the rear. It is constructed from uncoursed, roughly-dressed limestone blocks, featuring tooled ashlar dressings and slate roofs that have overlapping copings on the gable parapets. The roof sections include three metal louvre bases, although the louvres are now missing. A tall chimney with splayed sides, a chamfered top, and a cornice band adds to the structure's character.

The entrance front consists of three bays, with the left bay being advanced and gabled, featuring a catslide roof extension that continues to the right over a flush, central porch. The gable contains a pair of tall lancet windows with an oculus above, all framed within a large, flush ashlar arch. The original iron intersecting lozenge glazing remains in the oculus, while the other windows have plain modern glazing. The pointed-arched entrance is stepped up and features a modern panelled door with a plain triangular overlight above it. The right-hand bay has a large square window with tripartite modern glazing, and there is a blocked lancet group window to the right gable. Modern extensions are located to the northeast of this bay. The long left side of the building has three additional large square windows.

The interiors have been modernized, with contemporary partitioning and false ceilings that obscure the original open roofs in the main and lesser classroom halls.

Local climate

Trefnant School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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