Montgomery Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 2005. School.
Montgomery Primary School
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-rampart-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 2005
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- SO 224 966
- Coordinates
- 52.56249, -3.14565
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Montgomery Primary School is a school and former school-teacher's house built from greenish squared rubble stone with flush dressings in yellow Bath stone. The roofs are covered with small slates and feature crested terracotta ridge tiles. The building consists of a single-storey large school and a teacher's house that has one storey and an attic, both designed in a Gothic style. The windows are sash windows set in ashlar surrounds with chamfered and stopped jambs.
The school is arranged in an L-plan, with large gables facing south and west. Each gable has a prominent triple sash window, topped with a blind pointed tympanum that features bi-colour voussoirs and a sunk octofoil roundel. The long windows include horizontal glazing bars, and there is a flush ashlar band at impost level on either side. A moulded string course runs around the building at sill level. The west gable is flanked by a pair of large raking buttresses, while the south gable is partly obscured by a 20th-century low flat-roofed addition that connects to the assembly hall.
On the south side of the west gable, there is a projecting gabled porch with a chamfered pointed south doorway, and the hoodmould extends from the main string course. To the right of the porch, there is a short outshut with a tall stone chimney on the roof slope. The main range of the building runs at right angles and features a tall ashlar gable above a tall two-light cross window, with a quatrefoil panel in the gable. Under the eaves to the right, there are two pairs of small plate-glass sashes.
The teacher's house has a gabled cross-wing to the left of a two-bay range, with a roof that sweeps low over a door and a narrow window in cambered headed surrounds. The door is ledged and has an overlight. A dormer on the roof slope has an outsized gable supported by timber jowled posts, with notching on the lintel beneath a boarded gable featuring bargeboards and a two-pane fixed window. The cross-wing gable includes quoins, two flush bands, and cambered headed sash windows—one in the loft and two below. The north side wall has a large external chimney breast with a tall quoined double chimney. An addition on the east end gable was under construction in 2005.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Montgomery Primary School receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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