Little Deans Yard Turle's House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. School house.

Little Deans Yard Turle's House

WRENN ID
broken-eave-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 January 1970
Type
School house
Address
Little Deans Yard Turle's House, Broad Sanctuary Sw1, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 300 794
Coordinates
51.49864, -0.12767
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Dean's Yard, known as Turle's House, is a school house built in 1884 by J.L. Pearson. It incorporates fragments of an 11th-century reredorter and is partially constructed over the Dark Cloister of the Great Cloisters. The building is designed in a Neo-Tudor style, featuring red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof. It stands three storeys tall with a basement and a mid-20th century dormered mansard. The façade is four windows wide, with a set-back portion to the right. To the left, there is a four-centred arched doorway and similarly arched ground floor windows adjacent to the Dark Cloister opening. The upper floors are adorned with square-headed mullioned casements. Notably, remnants of the reredorter can be found in the basement and on the first floor.

Local climate

Little Deans Yard Turle's House 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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