Education Offices, Downhills School and Railings and Walls to Front is a Grade II listed building in the Haringey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1995. Education offices. 6 related planning applications.
Education Offices, Downhills School and Railings and Walls to Front
- WRENN ID
- roaming-footing-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Haringey
- Constituency
- Tottenham MP: Mr David Lammy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1995
- Type
- Education offices
- Address
- Education Offices, Downhills School and Railings and Walls to Front, 336, Philip Lane, N15 4AF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 325 892
- Coordinates
- 51.58694, -0.08765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Education Offices at Downhills School, located at 336 Philip Lane, were built between 1899 and 1900 and are attributed to architect Albert E Pridmore, who was the architect for the Tottenham School Board. This two-storey brick and terracotta building features a hipped slate roof with tall chimneys. The main facade is symmetrical and lively, highlighted by a projecting five-bay center flanked by broader single-bay wings, with recessed entrances on either side.
The ground floor of the center section showcases a bold design, featuring a central panelled door with a toplight set in an elaborate round-arched terracotta doorcase with Jacobethan details. On either side are round-arched windows framed by terracotta Gibbsian surrounds, with smaller toplights above tripartite casements. The first floor has a sill band level with a swan-necked pediment over the panelled red brick doorcase. It features a central group of three windows with small panes in their casements, set beneath keystones and surrounded by terracotta decoration. The corner oriels are particularly ornate, adorned with terracotta scroll mouldings and small-paned casements.
Above, a terracotta balustraded pediment is supported by brick piers and features a heavy cornice and a broken segmental pediment from which a clock projects. An open timber cupola crowns the roof. The wings on either side have terracotta bands, with two windows on the ground floor featuring keystones and larger single windows on the first floor set beneath segmental pediments. This design is consistent on the side elevations. The doors on either side are six-panelled and framed by pedimented surrounds. In front, the property is enclosed by railings atop dwarf, segmental-dished walls with contrasting brick piers and stone gatepiers, which are integral to the overall design.
Local climate
Education Offices, Downhills School and Railings and Walls to Front sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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