The Old Grammar School and attached iron railings is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 2004. School, house.

The Old Grammar School and attached iron railings

WRENN ID
high-lime-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 April 2004
Type
School, house
Address
The Old Grammar School and attached iron railings, Usk
OS grid reference
SO 377 007
Coordinates
51.70201, -2.90289
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Grammar School, a former school building primarily from the 19th century, reflects its 17th-century origins. It is constructed of coursed rubble with some ashlar dressings and tooled quoins, topped with a slate roof. The building features a gable-end facade and consists of two storeys. The windows are cross-framed, with two-light windows on the first floor and three-light windows on the ground floor. Two incised plaques indicate work completed in 1862 and 1898.

To the right, there is a lower, narrow recessed lean-to side wing with small casement windows that have ashlar surrounds. This wing connects to the projecting schoolmaster's house, which also has a gable-end facade. The house features a tall tiered rubble lateral external stack with terracotta pots, and a single three-light casement window on the main facade above a canted ground floor bay window. Further to the right, there is a two-window range set back, followed by a separately gabled cross wing, also with a two-window range.

In the angle between the school and the house is a portico made of rock-faced stone, featuring a parapet with orb finials, segmental arches, and broad corner columns. The side elevation of the school includes a Tudor-arched doorway with a boarded door, large ground-floor cross-framed windows under relieving arches, and a mullioned window on the first floor. The street frontage is marked by a rubble wall with two gateways, one of which still has a gate, along with piers and capstones, and a stretch of iron railings topped with spear finials.

Local climate

The Old Grammar School and attached iron railings receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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