Girls' Public Day School Trust School is a Grade II listed building in the Lewisham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1973. School. 11 related planning applications.
Girls' Public Day School Trust School
- WRENN ID
- second-threshold-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lewisham
- Constituency
- Lewisham North MP: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1973
- Type
- School
- Address
- Girls' Public Day School Trust School, Wemyss Road Se3
- OS grid reference
- TQ 397 761
- Coordinates
- 51.46716, 0.01089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Girls' Public Day School Trust School, built in 1879-80 by E R Robson, is a two-storey building with a basement, featuring eight windows and designed in the Queen Anne style. It has a fairly high-pitched, hipped tiled roof, which is altered by three wide modern dormers. The exterior is made of multicoloured stock brick with red brick dressings, including quoins, window jambs, aprons, and gauged flat brick arches, accented by white keystones.
There are five steps leading up to the central double door, which is flanked by sidelights and topped by a large rectangular fanlight with margin lights. The stone doorcase is supported by attached quasi-Ionic columns that hold up an entablature with a high open pediment. This pediment features a cartouche with an urn and cresset, along with an inscription that reads: "Opened by HRH Princess Louise January 17 1880. Girls Public Day School Company Limited." The property is also enclosed by cast iron hand and area railings.
Local climate
Girls' Public Day School Trust School 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 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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