School House and School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 2001. School.
School House and School Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-quoin-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 July 2001
- Type
- School
- Address
- School House and School Cottage, Goetre, Pontypool, Goetre Fawr
- OS grid reference
- SO 327 061
- Coordinates
- 51.74961, -2.9752
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The School House and School Cottage is a building constructed from squared snecked sandstone rubble, featuring dressed quoins and window surrounds, topped with Welsh slate roofs. It has a T-shaped plan, with a single-storey schoolroom on the left and a two-storey schoolhouse on the right. Both sections are accessed through an elliptically headed porch located at the angle, with plank doors.
The schoolroom contains two replacement small paned windows and an additional window in the gable end. The gable end of the house features a 4 + 4 pane casement window below and a 3 + 3 pane window above. There is a defaced recessed date plaque in the gable, which was once inscribed with the year 1852. The building has plain bargeboards.
On the long wall to the right, there is a large projecting wall stack with weathering and two flues. This is followed by a bay with windows similar to those previously mentioned, and a gable that has another ridge stack. There is a recessed wall for an extension, which includes two windows: 8 + 8 pane casements below and 6 + 6 pane casements above, along with a doorway featuring a segmental arch. The roof is plain. The rear elevation was not observed.
The schoolroom is simple and plain, while the interior of the house was not seen.
Local climate
School House and School Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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