Francis Holland Church of England School is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. School. 11 related planning applications.
Francis Holland Church of England School
- WRENN ID
- second-grate-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- School
- Address
- Francis Holland Church of England School, Park Road Nw1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 277 822
- Coordinates
- 51.52477, -0.16027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Francis Holland Church of England School is a school built in 1915 by H T Hare. It is located on a corner site at the junction of Park Road and Ivor Place. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a tiled roof. Designed in a Free Style that reflects mid-17th century architecture, it emphasizes massing and wall planes, with well-considered fenestration and restrained Stuart detailing.
The school is two storeys tall, with a semi-basement and a dormered attic. It has twelve windows facing Park Road, an entrance at the corner splay, and an eleven-window return along Ivor Place. The entrance features a pilastered doorway that is set forward, with three small windows directly above it. This is topped with corner obelisks and a canted bay window on the first floor, which has mullioned and transomed leaded light windows. The doorway arch is decorated with foliated stops and includes a carved date.
The main street elevations are articulated by very shallow pilaster strips, and there are hipped dormers in the roof, which has flat plastered eaves. A spiked lantern is positioned over the main entrance. The area surrounding the entrance is defined by a parapet wall with a swept treatment and obelisk finialed gate piers that flank the approach to the corner entrance.
Local climate
Francis Holland Church of England School 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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- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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