Choir School and Deans Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. School buildings.

Choir School and Deans Yard

WRENN ID
scattered-loft-oak
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 buildings
Address
Choir School and Deans Yard, 3b and 4, Broad Sanctuary Sw1, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 299 793
Coordinates
51.49858, -0.12963
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Choir School and Dean's Yard, built around 1915 by G. Wallace, is a group of school buildings located in the City of Westminster. Constructed from red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, the design reflects a Free Style Jacobethan style. The building features five storeys, a basement, and an attic storey that is partly open as a roofed playground.

The facade is 14 windows wide, with an 8-bay central range flanked by asymmetrical gabled bays, each containing three windows. The right-hand gabled section is slightly advanced and has a stone-faced basement and ground floor, featuring two adjoining doorways. The doorway on the right has an oriel window above it, while the left doorway is splayed with a curved cornice-arch and a coat of arms above. The windows are primarily two and three-light flush mullioned types, with those above the left entrance set in a stone-faced through-storey recess that extends to the top floor flat oriel.

The main range also has a stone-faced basement and ground floor, showcasing cross mullioned windows and two large oriel bays. The top floor is open as a playground loggia, which terminates on the left in a shallow gabled bay. The left-hand gabled section features a recessed right-hand bay, a recessed four-centred arch porch with a drip mould, and small stair lights above. To the left, there are large five-light flush mullioned and transomed windows. The building is finished with stone coped parapets and gables.

Local climate

Choir School and Deans 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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