Former St Peter's Boys' School (now Ramfield Study Centre) is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. School.

Former St Peter's Boys' School (now Ramfield Study Centre)

WRENN ID
lost-slate-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Constituency
Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 February 1995
Type
School
Address
Former St Peter's Boys' School (now Ramfield Study Centre), Blaenavon
OS grid reference
SO 250 088
Coordinates
51.77331, -3.08834
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former St Peter's Boys' School, now known as the Ramfield Study Centre, is an L-shaped stone building with a slate roof and yellow brick chimney stacks. It was constructed in five bays and is a single storey, with a two-storey Schoolmaster's house attached at the downhill end. The main facade features five rectangular casement windows, each with dressed stone lintels and angled stone sills. The two western bays create a gable made of quarry-faced, snecked stonework, while the three eastern bays are built with rubble construction. There are paired ventilation stones located beneath the verges. The Schoolmaster's house, which is set back at the left end, has a symmetrical facade with voussoirs and lightly tooled quoins. On the ground floor, there is a central door with a rectangular fanlight, flanked by cross-frame casement windows that have tooled stone sills. The first floor features three similarly spaced windows. The pitched roof has been re-tiled using modern materials.

Local climate

Former St Peter's Boys' School (now Ramfield Study Centre) 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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