School House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. School. 2 related planning applications.
School House
- WRENN ID
- last-pediment-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1996
- Type
- School
- Address
- School House, Pool Quay, Welshpool, SY21 9JU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 258 120
- Coordinates
- 52.70123, -3.09885
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The School House is a mid-19th century school and schoolmaster’s house, built in 1863 and with a later addition in 1872. It was established at the initiative of the Third Earl of Powis, who provided the site; the local parishioners constructed the building. The school closed in 1946.
The building comprises a single-story school room to the right and a two-story, gabled cross-range forming the schoolmaster’s house to the left. It is constructed of brick with a slate roof, and has axial and rear wall stacks. The schoolmaster's house features a doorway in its re-entrant angle and wood mullioned and transomed windows of two and three lights with flat arched gauged brick heads in the gable end, finished with fretted bargeboards. The school room has three-by-three-light wood transomed windows, and similar windows in the gable end and rear wing, which also houses the entrance. All windows are fitted with lattice glazing. The building represents a good example of a small rural school of the Victorian era.
Local climate
School House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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