Bexley College (Former Erith Technical Institute) Including Attached Walls Railings and Gatepiers is a Grade II listed building in the Bexley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1999. A Edwardian College.
Bexley College (Former Erith Technical Institute) Including Attached Walls Railings and Gatepiers
- WRENN ID
- solemn-landing-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bexley
- Constituency
- Erith and Thamesmead MP: Ms Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1999
- Type
- College
- Address
- Bexley College (Former Erith Technical Institute) Including Attached Walls Railings and Gatepiers, Erith Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 498 784
- Coordinates
- 51.48482, 0.15641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Built in 1906 as a technical institute and secondary school, later becoming a college of technology, this building is constructed of red brick with cream tile and terracotta detailing, and has a slate roof with brick and tiled chimneystacks, along with a central copper and wooden cupola. Designed by W Egerton, likely the council architect, it is built in the Queen Anne style. The front elevation along Holly Hill Road has 11 windows, while the northern elevation along Erith Road has 9 windows, and the southern elevation has 8 windows. Most windows are three-tier vertical sash windows.
The front features a recessed central seven-bay section and two projecting two-bay ends. The central section has first-floor segmental-headed arched windows illuminating the central hall, and a single-story wing with a floral terracotta frieze and a central doorcase bearing the date 1906. The entrance is approached by a double staircase with terracotta balusters and cast iron light fittings. A low red brick wall with cast iron panels and red brick piers with stone caps, and cast iron gates runs attached to the front. The wall and panels are stepped along Upper Holly Hill Road and Erith Road to account for changes in ground level.
The left gabled wing is three stories high, with the additional story functioning as a basement due to the sloping site; it features two windows per floor. The side elevation of this wing includes two truncated gables with Venetian-style windows to the top floor, eight windows below, and original windows to ground floor level, though two later 20th-century doors were inserted into original openings. The right gabled wing displays a tablet inscribed "Erith Technical Institute and Secondary School" on the gable and has two ground-floor windows. The Erith Road front has nine ground-floor windows; the first floor has two large windows, originally designed for the art departments, retaining original glazing bars of nine large panes each, topped by gables with elaborate moulded tiled decoration, two small windows between them, and one to the right. The rear elevation is of stock brick with red brick dressings, incorporates two gables, and retains its original windows.
The interior features a full-height central hall with a hammerbeam roof, a balcony on three sides, and two staircases to the rear of the wings.
Local climate
Bexley College (Former Erith Technical Institute) Including Attached Walls Railings and Gatepiers sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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