Former Fosters Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Bexley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1997. School. 1 related planning application.
Former Fosters Primary School
- WRENN ID
- tall-rubble-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bexley
- Constituency
- Old Bexley and Sidcup MP: Mr Louie French (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1997
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former Fosters Primary School, Upper Wickham Lane, DA16 3AE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 466 761
- Coordinates
- 51.4652, 0.11003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former school with an attached former schoolmaster's house, built in 1879. The building was constructed for Foster's Educational Trust, which had been established in 1727 following a bequest by William Foster to provide education for 20 poor children. It is built of brown brick with red brick dressings, some pointed tiles to the gables, and a renewed tiled roof with ridge tiles. The building has an L-shaped plan, comprising the school to the left and the former schoolmaster's house to the right.
The school section is a single storey with attics and features a prominent octagonal tiled spire with wooden louvres and a cast-iron finial. There is a projecting gable to the left with wooden bargeboards, a pendant, and two tall windows, together with a lean-to with an arched doorcase. Dormers feature stepped mullioned windows, and the ground floor has three mullioned and transomed casements. A gabled porch is followed by a projecting gable with a three-tier, five-light casement. The two-storey former schoolmaster’s house to the right consists of two parallel ranges and two storeys, with chequer-work framing and pebbledashed infill to the gable. It includes a three-light sash window to the first floor, a four-light canted bay to the ground floor, and a gabled wooden porch with bargeboard, finial, and pendant.
The north-east side of the building has four mullioned and transomed windows; the roof incorporates courses of alternating plain and patterned tiles. The rear elevation includes end projecting gables with hipped hoists and a flat-roofed dormer to the central section, along with a later flat-roofed addition in matching style and materials. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former Fosters 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 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 16 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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