Former Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. School.
Former Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- noble-passage-rush
- 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
- Former Grammar School, Welshpool
- OS grid reference
- SJ 224 072
- Coordinates
- 52.65785, -3.14771
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Former Grammar School is a simple Gothic Revival style building dating from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features a slate roof, topped by a spirelet above the entrance. The building consists of a main range with a gabled cross wing to the left and a hipped roofed tower that projects to the right.
The main range is divided into three bays by buttresses, each bay containing a three-light window with steeply arched traceries. There is a continuous string course above the ground floor, and a central upper window, which features paired foiled lancets that are now blocked, is set within a coped gabled dormer that breaks the eaves line. There are also traces of another upper window that has been removed, visible in the left bay. The cross wing on the left has a three-light steeply arched stone traceried window on the ground floor, with paired foiled lancets above the string course and a narrow lancet light in the gable apex. The return elevation features paired banded windows on the ground floor, each with four foiled lancets.
The advanced tower to the right has a tall, tiered window that is now blocked, but fragments of the original tracery can still be seen at the head, set beneath a steep dormer gable. The tower's pyramidal roof is topped with a fleche.
This building is a notable example of a mid-19th century Gothic Revival school situated in an urban context.
Local climate
Former Grammar School 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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