Former School is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 April 2001. School. 4 related planning applications.
Former School
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 April 2001
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former School, Penybontfawr, Oswestry, Pen-Y-Bont-Fawr
- OS grid reference
- SJ 085 245
- Coordinates
- 52.81075, -3.35761
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a former school and teacher's house, dating to the 18th century. It comprises a long east/west range, with a cross-range projecting at each end, and a lower, slate-roofed annexe to the east. The school portion is a single storey, while the teacher's house, forming the east end of the main range, is two storeys high. The building is constructed of local, axe-dressed stonework laid in an informal coursing pattern. The front wall of the teacher's house and the east annexe have been rendered. The roofs are slate, with the exception of a modern toilet range at the rear, inserted between the cross-wings and covered with a low-pitched tile roof. The west wall and the south gable of the west cross-wing are clad in slate. Windows are timber-framed, featuring cast iron casements or fixed lights with quarry glazing, set within openings with cambered heads. The gable windows of the west cross-wing, which served as a schoolroom, have decorative trefoiled timber heads at both the front and rear. The entrance to the former teacher's house is set back to the right.
Local climate
Former School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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