St George's Church of England Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. School.
St George's Church of England Primary School
- WRENN ID
- plain-balcony-moth
- 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
- St George's Church of England Primary School, South Street W1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 804
- Coordinates
- 51.5088, -0.14985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St George's Church of England Primary School, built in 1897-98 by P.A. Robson, is a school and flatted teacher's house located on South Street in the City of Westminster. The building is constructed of red brick with extensive stone dressings and features slate roofs. It showcases a distinctive Free Style Jacobethan design with intricate detailing, arranged in a tight L plan that includes the school and the teacher's house, connected by a staircase and latrine tower at the right angle junction. The school has four storeys and an attic, with a prominent seven-storey tower at the east corner.
The playground elevation is characterized by two major gabled bays and features large multi-light mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor, set between half-octagonal brick and stone banded piers. The first floor has groups of three mullioned transomed windows with linked segmental stone relieving arches, paired windows on the second floor, and triple groups of attic lights, with the central light being taller and featuring transoms. The corner tower has an oriel and a turret roof, while the circular latrine tower has a shaped parapet and a cupola vent, along with stone sill bands.
The teacher's house, which has four and a half storeys, is designed to be more domestic in appearance, with banding reserved for the attic storey. It features a corner entrance with slightly Baroque details set under corbelling and oriels above. The side elevation includes three-light mullioned and transomed wood casements with segmental arches, and there is a segmental arched loggia at the attic storey. This building forms a picturesque group with the adjacent properties numbered 39 to 47.
Local climate
St George's Church of England Primary 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 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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