Original Building of Former Bexley National Schools is a Grade II listed building in the Bexley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1974. School.

Original Building of Former Bexley National Schools

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bexley
Constituency
Old Bexley and Sidcup MP: Mr Louie French (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1974
Type
School
Address
Original Building of Former Bexley National Schools, Bourne Road
OS grid reference
TQ 496 738
Coordinates
51.4442, 0.15135
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The original building of the former Bexley National Schools, dated 1834, was constructed from an endowment by the Reverend Thomas Smoult in 1703. This two-storey structure is made of yellow stock brick with stuccoed dressings in a Neo-Jacobean style. It features a slate roof with a stuccoed parapet, two shaped gables with date stones, and four clustered chimney-stacks. The building has a moulded stucco cornice and stucco quoins. There are four casement windows, which include mullions and transoms on the ground floor, topped with shaped lintels. A date plaque inscribed 'Bexley National Schools' is located in the center of the first floor, likely covering an earlier window. The entrance is marked by a brick porch with a segmental arch and a recessed door. At the rear, there are plain schoolrooms that are one storey high, with seven windows on the south side.

Local climate

Original Building of Former Bexley National Schools sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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