Dean's Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. School. 2 related planning applications.
Dean's Yard
- WRENN ID
- cold-cobalt-smoke
- 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
- Dean's Yard, 3 and 3a, Broad Sanctuary Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1P 3NP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 299 794
- Coordinates
- 51.49893, -0.12948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 3 and 3A Dean's Yard is a building associated with Westminster School, constructed around 1865 by Sir George Gilbert Scott and John Oldrid Scott. It features red brick with stone dressings facing Dean's Yard, while the rear range facing Great Smith Street is made of stone rubble with ashlar dressings and later slate mansards. The architectural style is Neo-early-Tudor.
The main front has three storeys, a basement, and dormered attics, measuring twelve windows wide in a slightly asymmetrical layout. The south wing has five windows that are recessed from the three-window centerpiece. The entrance is located in the right-hand side of the centerpiece and features a recessed camber arched porch with a quoined stone surround. The windows are mullioned transomed iron casements with drip moulds, including an oriel window through the first and second floors in the middle bay of the centerpiece and another oriel in the south wing. There are flush and weathered stone strings and a battlemented parapet on top. The area is enclosed by cast iron Gothic railings.
The rear stone range has four storeys, a basement, and an attic, spanning nine bays wide with a single-storey, two-bay north wing. It includes two recessed porches with drip moulds and irregular fenestration with square-headed mullioned-transomed casements, some featuring traceried heads. There are shallow oriel windows through the first and second floors on both sides. The building has irregular stone string courses and a battlemented parapet above a band course, with the north wing also featuring a battlemented design and an octagonal lantern topped with an ogee cupola behind the parapet.
Local climate
Dean's Yard 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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