Roger Ascham School Administration Building and Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1992. School, administration building.
Roger Ascham School Administration Building and Hall
- WRENN ID
- cold-quartz-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1992
- Type
- School, administration building
- Address
- Roger Ascham School Administration Building and Hall, Ascham Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 454 600
- Coordinates
- 52.21925, 0.12758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roger Ascham School Administration Building and Hall is an administration building and hall for an open-air school, designed in 1927 by G W Teasdale, the borough architect. It features a red Flemish bond brick plinth with pebble-dash above, accented by red brick dressings, and has plain tile gable-ended roofs with brick axial stacks.
The building has a T-shaped plan. The front range includes staff and nurses' rooms and a kitchen located to the left of the center, behind which is the large assembly hall wing. It is a single-storey structure with an asymmetrical façade comprising two, two, two, and three bays. The two bays to the left of the center are gabled, supported by brick pilasters and featuring brick round relieving arches over the windows. The windows are cross-mullion transomed with glazing bars and casements. There are glazed and panelled doors to the left and right of the center bays, each with canopies on brackets. Thin-brick corner pilasters add detail to the exterior. The hall at the rear is supported by brick buttresses with set-offs between three-light mullion transom windows, which also have glazing bars, and features two small fleche-like ventilators on the ridge. A foundation stone is located to the left of the center at the front.
Inside, the hall is open to the roof, showcasing trusses with low collars and tie rods.
Local climate
Roger Ascham School Administration Building and Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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