St Hugh's Preparatory School at St Edmund's College (Rc) (To South of Allen Hall) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Prep school.
St Hugh's Preparatory School at St Edmund's College (Rc) (To South of Allen Hall)
- WRENN ID
- seventh-chamber-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Prep school
- Address
- St Hugh's Preparatory School at St Edmund's College (Rc) (To South of Allen Hall), Cambridge Road, Standon
- OS grid reference
- TL 371 219
- Coordinates
- 51.87921, -0.00858
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Hugh's Preparatory School, located at St Edmund's College, was built in 1851 by Augustus Welby Pugin for the headmaster of St Edmund's College. The building has been extended to the rear and features a schoolroom added in the 19th century. A chapel was constructed in 1938, and a classroom wing was added in 1961, though these later additions are not of special interest.
The school is a two-storey house designed in an irregular H-plan, constructed of grey brick, with red brick used in less prominent areas on the north and west sides. It has steep red tile roofs. The west side includes a large single-storey schoolroom made of red brick with a hipped tile roof, which is partially pebbledashed. The building is designed in Gothic style, with the east front featuring a symmetrical three-window section on the right and an entrance in the angle, which has a deeply recessed section on the left.
The right side has two-storey canted stone mullioned bay windows flanking a single-storey central canted porch. The left side mirrors this with two similar canted bay windows. The entrance features a four-centred stone doorway with carved spandrels, a moulded label, and two carved plaques above—one depicting a lamb holding a papal key and the other displaying the Ward monogram. An oriel window projects over the entrance door.
Local climate
St Hugh's Preparatory School at St Edmund's College (Rc) (To South of Allen Hall) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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