Bousfield School, Including Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. Primary school. 13 related planning applications.
Bousfield School, Including Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- distant-cornice-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- Primary school
- Address
- Bousfield School, Including Water Tower, South Bolton Gardens, SW5 0DJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 260 783
- Coordinates
- 51.49022, -0.1861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This primary school, built between 1954 and 1956, was designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. It is constructed with glass curtain walling, featuring obscured panels in blue, yellow, and green. The exterior is predominantly dark brown brick with some areas of white glazed brick. The school is arranged with single-storey infant classrooms and two-storey junior classrooms, both grouped around their own courtyards. The central block accommodates two assembly halls and staffrooms. The elevations are largely glazed, with a white brick band positioned below the window cill level on the ground floor. Obscured panels are also present below the cill level of the upper floor and vertically between bays, coloured blue, yellow, and green where they intersect. Some end walls are finished in dark brick, and a painted timber strip runs along the roofline. A spherical, painted concrete water tower stands on a circular pier to the rear of the building. The school’s group value is enhanced by its distinctive architectural style.
Local climate
Bousfield School, Including Water Tower 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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