Roger Ascham School Gymnasium and Attached Classroom is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1992. School, gymnasium. 1 related planning application.
Roger Ascham School Gymnasium and Attached Classroom
- WRENN ID
- weathered-moat-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1992
- Type
- School, gymnasium
- Address
- Roger Ascham School Gymnasium and Attached Classroom, Ascham Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 454 600
- Coordinates
- 52.21963, 0.12789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roger Ascham School Gymnasium and attached classroom is a building from 1927, designed by G W Teasdale, the borough architect. Originally part of an open-air school, it features a rectangular plan with a hipped plain tile roof and deep eaves, constructed from Flemish bond red brick and timber.
The exterior is single-storey with a 3:6 bay southwest front. The right side, which was originally open, now has a glazed front set back behind wooden posts. The left side includes a 3-bay classroom with glazed double doors in the center, flanked by sidelights and large four-light folding windows with glazing bars and top lights. The left return is similarly glazed.
Inside, the gymnasium has an open roof supported by queen-strut trusses.
Roger Ascham School is notable as one of the most intact open-air schools remaining in England. It was established in 1916 in wooden buildings in Vinery Road, Cambridge, before moving to Ascham Road in 1927. The school was designed to aid children whose development had been affected by illness, allowing for their eventual integration into regular schools. By 1949, there were 127 open-air schools in England, influenced by the design principles of the 20th century.
Local climate
Roger Ascham School Gymnasium and Attached Classroom 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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