Former Ffynnongroyw School is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 May 1993. School. 1 related planning application.
Former Ffynnongroyw School
- WRENN ID
- fallen-stronghold-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1993
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former Ffynnongroyw School, Holywell, Llanasa, CH8 9UJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 135 823
- Coordinates
- 53.3306, -3.30011
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This former school building, built in a Tudor-Gothic style, dates from 1871. It is constructed of snecked rubble with freestone dressings, topped by a steep slate roof featuring banded fish-scale slates. The roof has coped gables with moulded kneelers. The building has a T-shaped plan, with a main range facing the street and a short, set-back former infants' wing to the right. A spirelet incorporating a vent sits above the junction of the main range and wing, and a stone ridge stack is located further back.
The main range has a doorway in its gable end, which replaced a former mullioned window—the lintel is inscribed "UNDENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL", while a tablet above it reads "NONDENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL”, both dated 1871. Large-pane glazing now fills the doorway, replacing earlier boarded doors. A gabled bellcote at the apex has lost its bell. A gabled porch is located on the right side of the main range, with small side windows and a lintelled boarded door. The infants’ wing has a stack on its left side and paired sash windows with a central mullion. Its gable end features a lintelled vent in the gable and a sash window inserted into a raised original opening.
The left side wall of the main range contains three pairs of sash windows with central mullions, followed by a replaced glazed door, an original horned sash window, and two small inserted windows, plus an inserted basement window. The rear gable end has two inserted boarded doors giving access to the basement. An outshut is located behind the main range, adjacent to the wing with paired sash windows below pivoting lights, all under a small gable. A flat-roofed projection behind the wing obscures an original blocked window.
Internally, partitions have been inserted in both the main range and wing to create a nursery space, and the rear of the main range has been adapted for use as a dwelling.
Local climate
Former Ffynnongroyw 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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