Former Guildhall School of Music is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1980. School building.
Former Guildhall School of Music
- WRENN ID
- peeling-newel-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1980
- Type
- School building
- Address
- Former Guildhall School of Music, John Carpenter Street Ec4, City and County of the City of London
- OS grid reference
- TQ 314 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51206, -0.10653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Guildhall School of Music, built between 1885 and 1887 and designed by architect Sir Horace Jones, features an addition from 1897 by Andrew Murray. This three-storey building is constructed of ashlar and has a window arrangement of 1-5-1 sashes. The ground floor is rusticated and includes an entablature above. A central door is topped with an open rounded pediment that rests on projecting consoles supported by Ionic columns. The ends of the front project slightly, featuring piers on the ground floor and paired corner pilasters on the upper floors. Decorative surrounds adorn all windows, with entablatures above each floor. A pierced parapet runs along the entire side elevation facing Tallis Street, which is quite similar in style.
Local climate
Former Guildhall School of Music 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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