Wolverhampton Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1977. School. 13 related planning applications.
Wolverhampton Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-facade-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1977
- Type
- School
- Address
- Wolverhampton Grammar School, Compton Road, City of Wolverhampton, WV3 9RB
- OS grid reference
- SO 899 986
- Coordinates
- 52.58575, -2.14929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wolverhampton Grammar School is a school building constructed in 1875, with additions made in 1890, designed by architects Giles and Gough. It is built of brick with ashlar dressings and features tile roofs, showcasing a Victorian Tudor Revival style. The structure includes a single-storey hall with eight windows, a four-storey entrance tower, and a two-storey former headmaster's residence.
The hall is characterized by weathered buttresses, end angle buttresses with pinnacles, a brick parapet, and stone-coped gables. It has architraved double-chamfered-mullioned windows with Tudor heads and two transoms, as well as a ventilation lantern at the ridge. There is a return five-light window with a four-centred head.
The entrance tower features a higher octagonal turret on the left, a Tudor-arched entrance with a label mould raised over shields and sidelights, and sill courses on the first and second floors. Above the second floor, there is a frieze of shields and top embattled parapets. The tower has mullioned and transomed windows with leaded glazing and a blocked roundel at the top. The right return displays an 18th-century cartouche, while the left block and right range have gablets at the first floor, along with a large canted bay window at the right end and a gable-end stack.
The headmaster's residence has a gabled projection to the right, a central entrance in a gabled porch with a pointed arch, casemented windows, first-floor gablets, and a cross-axial stack. The rear is similar, featuring a gabled single-storey and canted organ loft to the hall, along with some later wings.
Inside, the hall boasts a hammer-beam roof, some fielded panelling, a 20th-century balcony, and panelling below. There are two hooded fireplaces with armorial bearings, 20th-century stained glass, and some panels from St Andrew's, Undershaft, London, as well as memorial plaques from the old school building. The school was founded by Stephen Jenys of the Merchant Taylors' Guild in 1515 and was later relocated from an 18th-century building in the town centre.
Local climate
Wolverhampton Grammar School receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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