County Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 September 1996. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
County Primary School
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-string-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 September 1996
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- County Primary School, Kerry, Newtown, SY16 4NP
- OS grid reference
- SO 148 900
- Coordinates
- 52.50139, -3.25588
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The County Primary School is a 19th-century building constructed of yellow brick, featuring rock-faced local stone shaley limestone quoins and dressings. It has a slate roof with perforated ridges. The main structure is positioned at right angles to the road and consists of a 3-bay hall, a 2-bay cross wing at the southern end, and a 2-storey entrance tower with a spire at the northeast corner. The entrance features a boarded door with iron hinges and perimeter studding set within a moulded pointed arch.
A prominent gable, slightly set forward, contains a 3-light window with lancets separated by colonettes and cinquefoils in the spandrels. There is a ventilator above the window and a stack with sloping shoulders on the side. The gable end of the wing also has a similar window and contains an additional classroom, complete with a terminal stack. The spire roof steps back to a louvred timber stage, which is arched at each section, topped with a pyramidal spire.
Inside, the building features an open raftered roof supported by two tiers of purlins, with trusses extended by wall posts to corbels. Scissor braces are present in the roof of the main range.
Local climate
County Primary School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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