Racquet Courts at Rugby School is a Grade II listed building in the Rugby local planning authority area, England. Sports facility. 3 related planning applications.

Racquet Courts at Rugby School

WRENN ID
solitary-thatch-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rugby
Constituency
Rugby MP: John Slinger (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Sports facility
Address
Racquet Courts at Rugby School, Oak Street, CV22 5EA
OS grid reference
SP 503 746
Coordinates
52.36752, -1.26196
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Racquet Courts at Rugby School were built in 1880 by William Butterfield in a Gothic style. The structure is made of red brick with stone dressings and bands of darker brick. The gabled east end elevation features a ground floor gallery topped with a hipped Welsh slated roof. On the first floor, there are three pairs of lancet windows, with each pair separated by a thin central colonnette.

Local climate

Racquet Courts at Rugby School receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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