Fox Hill Junior School is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. School.
Fox Hill Junior School
- WRENN ID
- tenth-remnant-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich MP: Matthew Pennycook (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- School
- Address
- Fox Hill Junior School, Plumstead Common Road Se18
- OS grid reference
- TQ 436 779
- Coordinates
- 51.48256, 0.06786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox Hill Junior School was built in 1881 and is a single-storey building with an attic and basement, featuring three windows. It has a high-pitched, hipped tiled roof topped with a bell cote that has a lead ogee cupola. A later dormer has been added to the left side of the roof. The walls are made of red brick, and the central section slightly projects under a high Dutch gable. This section includes a round-headed window on the half landing above the main floor, with a door beneath it on the half landing below.
The building features pilasters with terra-cotta leaf decoration, which are paired at the ends and single on either side of the central section, supporting a moulded and dentilled cornice. These pilasters rest on a cornice of the basement floor, which is slightly lower on the left to accommodate the slope of the hill, and they have small brick aprons below. The side windows have gauged, flat brick arches, with their keystones supporting a moulded cornice and a pediment adorned with egg and dart moulding. Above the left window, there is an oval terra cotta medallion.
The central window and door are set in a round arched recess, with a small pilaster on the keystone that supports the cornice of the Dutch gable, which has a round head above it. The gable is decorated with three ball finials. Steps lead up to the door, which features a stone architrave, alternating block jambs, a frieze, cornice, and pediment, all with egg and dart moulding. The tympanum above the door has the inscription "AD 1881" along with a swag. High basement windows are arranged with three grouped casements on each side. There is a shallow flight of steps to the left that leads up to the playground level.
Local climate
Fox Hill 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 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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