St Gilbert's School, Waresley House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1969. A Georgian School. 3 related planning applications.
St Gilbert's School, Waresley House
- WRENN ID
- stony-minaret-peregrine
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham MP: Nigel Huddleston (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1969
- Type
- School
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- St Gilbert's School, Waresley House, Hartlebury, DY11 7XN
- OS grid reference
- SO 844 698
- Coordinates
- 52.3268, -2.22904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Gilbert's School, Waresley House is a small country house that has been converted into a school. It dates from the late 18th century and has undergone early and late 20th century alterations. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features a low pitched hipped stone slate roof. The main facade faces south and consists of three storeys with a modillioned cornice at the blocking course and sill strings on the ground and first floors.
The facade has seven bays, with a prominent central three-bay pedimented section that projects forward and includes a glazed oculus in the tympanum. The windows are primarily glazing bar sash windows, although many have been replaced by late 20th century top hung casements. These windows feature stone voussoirs and keystones, with a central Venetian window on the first floor and a Diocletian window above it on the second floor, where the windows are smaller in size.
There is a segmental-plan Doric portico with four columns and a Doric frieze, which is accessed by steps and includes a glazed door with an overlight and flanking windows. The building has a U-plan layout at the rear. Inside, the entrance hall was mostly reconstructed around 1912 and features Ionic columns at the main doors.
Local climate
St Gilbert's School, Waresley House receives an average of 760 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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