The Henrietta Barnett Junior School is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1965. School.

The Henrietta Barnett Junior School

WRENN ID
noble-wicket-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Barnet
Constituency
Finchley and Golders Green MP: Sarah Sackman (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1965
Type
School
Address
The Henrietta Barnett Junior School, Bigwood Road Nw11
OS grid reference
TQ 256 885
Coordinates
51.58145, -0.18815
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Henrietta Barnett Junior School is a two-storey building with single-storey wings, located on Bigwood Road in Hampstead Garden Suburb, built from purple brick with small red dressings and topped with hipped tile roofs. The main elevation facing Bigwood Road features a prominent central section that projects forward, consisting of two storeys and three window bays. The central door is framed by a slightly eared architrave and a pulvinated frieze. Above this, there is an unusually high broken pediment with an urn feature at the apex. The parapet is adorned with urns at the corners.

On the first floor, there are three sash windows with recessed panels above them on the parapet. The hipped roof is topped by a cupola with a copper-covered base, featuring a cavetto roof of copper and round-headed lead or copper lights. The single-storey wings have a plain sash window treatment, and there are three dormers on the roof flanking the central section, while the single-storey wings do not have dormers. The ends of these wings each feature one high sash window that rises above the eaves, finished with a cornice and pediment.

Local climate

The Henrietta Barnett Junior 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 98% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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