The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 February 1998. School.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- rough-loft-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1998
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, Newton, Porthcawl
- OS grid reference
- SS 836 775
- Coordinates
- 51.48449, -3.67774
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old School is a 19th-century building constructed of rubble with plain or tooled ashlar dressings. It features large decorative painted bargeboards with deep finials on each gable, a Welsh slate roof with blue ridge tiles, overhanging eaves, and an ashlar end stack on the right and an external stack on the left. The building has a rectangular plan for the schoolroom, which includes an added porch wing and an attached two-bay schoolhouse with a central porch and a rear outshut.
The south elevation of the schoolroom has three windows with chamfered voussoirs and surrounds, along with painted stone sills and renewed glazing. There is a plinth, and the central bay masonry shows some alteration. The entrance porch, which has a separate gable, is located at the left end. The west elevation of the schoolhouse is two stories high, featuring a large gabled porch on the center right. The building has large, decoratively tooled quoins and chamfered Tudor-arched doorways leading to both the porch and the house, with the house door being a vertical panelled door. The porch walls are limewashed.
On the first floor, there is a gable that forms a full dormer, which contains a 2/2 pane casement window. The ground floor has a window on the left with renewed glazing, chamfered voussoirs, a surround, and a sill, while there is a single light window to the right of the porch. To the right, there is a double gable for the school cross wing, which has a similar schoolroom window. There is also a matching smaller gable for an added porch on the right, which has a blocked doorway to the street, no plinth, and a battered corner. At the rear of the house, there is a single-storey outshut and an added store to the side. The boundary walls are made of rubble with rough stone coping, and there are roadside entrances with tooled ashlar piers topped with pyramidal finials.
The ground floor rooms have been joined together for community use.
Local climate
The Old School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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