The Babington Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 June 1988. Village school.
The Babington Centre
- WRENN ID
- salt-parapet-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1988
- Type
- Village school
- Address
- The Babington Centre, Trellech, Monmouth, Trellech United
- OS grid reference
- SO 500 055
- Coordinates
- 51.74647, -2.72444
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Babington Centre is a low, single-storey village school built in the Tudor Revival style. Constructed from sandstone rubble with some coursed sections and freestone dressings, it features Welsh slate roofs. Originally, the building comprised a single classroom with a very small master's cottage at the rear, both of which have since been extended.
The front of the building is symmetrical with three windows and a central cross gable adorned with wavy bargeboards. The openings have broad chamfered reveals, with the central one being taller and featuring a rectangular dripmould and a blind panel above. The flanking windows are sash windows with 1 over 1 panes. To the left, there is a lower one-window extension with cross-glazing. The main gable ends have dripmoulds over large cross-windows, and there is a modern porch on the east side.
At the rear, there is a wide-spreading two-storey gabled range with a stone chimney stack and sash windows on two levels, situated between lean-to extensions. The building is set behind a stone-walled forecourt that faces the main road, with pedestrian gatepiers located downhill on the east side, although the ball-finials are missing.
Inside, the main classroom features a three-bay principal rafter roof.
Local climate
The Babington Centre receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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