Lansdowne School, School House is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 November 2001. School.
Lansdowne School, School House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-pilaster-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 November 2001
- Type
- School
- Address
- Lansdowne School, School House, Canton
- OS grid reference
- ST 157 765
- Coordinates
- 51.48134, -3.2141
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lansdowne School, School House is a two-storey cottage built with Newbridge sandstone rubble walls arranged in courses, featuring Bath stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof. It has a gable end facing Norfolk Street and a longer side facing Lansdowne Road. The gable end includes a canted bay at the bottom and a three-light stone mullioned window above, although modern plastic windows have been installed. There is a slit vent in the gable above. The roof is steeply pitched, but the chimneys are missing. The long side elevations have small windows. On the Lansdowne Road side, there are two windows and a door with sidelights on the ground floor, along with a paired window above. The left end of the building features a slightly lower roof line and coped gables. The interior has not been seen during the resurvey.
Local climate
Lansdowne School, School House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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