Greenfields School is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. School.
Greenfields School
- WRENN ID
- rusted-lintel-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- School
- Address
- Greenfields School, Prestwick Road, Watford Rural
- OS grid reference
- TQ 113 922
- Coordinates
- 51.61807, -0.39375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greenfields School is a primary school built between 1951 and 1952, designed by H.T. Swain of Hertfordshire County Council. The building features a steel frame with horizontal precast concrete panels based on the Hills 8' 3" system, which was modified by Hertfordshire. It has low pitched and flat roofs and is single-storeyed with a compact plan. The layout includes a tall hall and a lower dining room that opens from the hall, along with classrooms and a staff room organized around an open courtyard. The hall has solid sides and a fully glazed end window that is five bays wide, rising to the low pitched roof. The dining room and classrooms are fully glazed, except for a low band of solid panels beneath the windows. The windows are metal framed, and the building features prominent eaves and a cornice. This school is notable as the first of the second generation of Hertfordshire schools built on the Hills 8' 3" system, which is characterized by tighter planning due to changes in Ministry of Education cost controls.
Local climate
Greenfields School sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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