Smithdon School Including Main Block, Water Tower, Workshops and Kitchens is a Grade II* listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. School. 2 related planning applications.
Smithdon School Including Main Block, Water Tower, Workshops and Kitchens
- WRENN ID
- brooding-paling-honey
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- School
- Address
- Smithdon School Including Main Block, Water Tower, Workshops and Kitchens, Kings Lynn Road, Hunstanton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE36 5HY
- OS grid reference
- TF 678 405
- Coordinates
- 52.93633, 0.49639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithdon School, which includes the main block, water tower, workshops, and kitchens, is a secondary school built between 1950 and 1954 by architects Alison and Peter Smithson. The structure features a painted steel frame with buff sandlime brick infill and a flat roof. Originally, the windows were made of steel without subframes, but many have since been replaced with timber. The building is two storeys high, with single-storey workshops and kitchens located to the north. It has a compact, almost symmetrical rectangular plan organized around two courtyards, with a central double-height hall that spans the two main sections. The classrooms are fully glazed, with obscured panels below the cill height. The ground floor has lower proportions compared to the upper floor. Additionally, there is a steel-framed water tower with steel tanks situated between the main block and the attached kitchen, along with a brick chimney nearby. This building is significant for its innovative steelwork, designed based on the plastic theory.
Local climate
Smithdon School Including Main Block, Water Tower, Workshops and Kitchens receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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