St. Asaph V.P. School is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. School.

St. Asaph V.P. School

WRENN ID
quiet-trefoil-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
School
OS grid reference
SJ 040 743
Coordinates
53.25716, -3.44041
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

St. Asaph V.P. School is a Tudor-style, asymmetrical single-storey building with four bays, dating from the 19th century. At the left end, it incorporates a two-storey, two-window house with an advanced gable bay, which is balanced by a broader gable end of the school hall on the right. The exterior is constructed of snecked hammer-dressed rubble with freestone dressings, including quoins, gable parapets, and around window and door openings, as well as a plinth. The roofs are slate with stone chimney stacks and cappings, featuring cross roofs over the gable-ended bays. There is a blocked attic in the left gable and a punched trefoil above a three-light hall window on the right gable, complete with apex finials. The central bay has a four-light square-headed window, flanked by a pointed arch entrance with half-glazed doors. The gabled bay of the house has bipartite windows, while similar tripartite windows are set back to the left.

The left gable end features random coursed rubble with a sash window above the entrance. A parallel range set back extends to the left, maintaining similar detailing but with a modern window. The rear elevation is mixed, with a steeper slate roof and small pane sash windows in the house. The right side gable end has a hall window similar to that on the front.

The front of the building retains Gothic traceried iron railings and a gate on a low rubble wall. Inside, the school features arched braced trusses in the four-bay hall, which is ceiled at collar level. Diagonally set trusses span the two central bays, with a small pane glazed partition in the middle and a carved bracket corbel.

Local climate

St. Asaph V.P. School 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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