Former School is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 August 1995. Community centre, former school. 1 related planning application.
Former School
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1995
- Type
- Community centre, former school
- Address
- Former School, Berriew
- OS grid reference
- SJ 188 008
- Coordinates
- 52.59908, -3.19992
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a former school, now functioning as a community centre, constructed from roughly coursed and squared stone with a slate roof and axial brick stacks. It is two storeys high and features a symmetrical design with advanced outer wings and a two-window range between them. The right-hand wing houses the former school, while the rest is known as the Old School House.
The Old School House has a doorway set in an ashlar porch on the left-hand wing, featuring a four-centred archway with a hood mould and a traceried overlight above the door. Next to the porch is a two-light casement window with a transom window, all framed in a painted stone architrave with curved upper lights. Similar casement windows are found above the porch and in the gable of the wing, which also includes a small attic window, moulded kneelers to the copings, and a finial.
The right-hand wing contains the former school entrance, which is in a segmental archway on the inner side, and features mullioned windows with round-headed lights—four on the ground floor and two above—in the gable end. An inscription plate recording the history of the school is located at the gable apex. Recent additions against the right-hand return replace earlier extensions to the school accommodation. The rear elevation facing the churchyard has a single window on each floor in the gabled wing, and a three-window range for the school house. All windows are two-light mullions set in chamfered painted stone architraves, with arched heads to the lights.
Local climate
Former School receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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