Woodhill School is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. School. 5 related planning applications.

Woodhill School

WRENN ID
floating-steel-ebony
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
Woodhill School, Woodhill Se18, SE18 5JE
OS grid reference
TQ 423 786
Coordinates
51.4893, 0.04933
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodhill School is a building likely designed by E R Robson. The south front features a main center section that is two storeys tall with an attic and has four wide bays, accented by hexagonal angle towers. The exterior is constructed of multicoloured streaked brick banded with red brick, topped with a stone cornice and a brick parapet. The high-pitched tiled roof includes four prominent gabled dormers, each with moulded cornices and shouldered architraves for the dormer windows.

On the first floor, the windows are set in wide, two-centred arches with stone ogee hoodmoulds that rise through the cornice to fleur-de-lys finials on the parapet. The windows are three-light sash windows, with the center light being taller and featuring ornamental bars. Below each window, there is an arcade of six small, blank segmental arches. A stone-coped string runs at the first-floor level. The ground floor windows are two-light windows with a panelled pilaster mullion between them.

Flanking the center block are one-bay staircase sections with lower roofs and plain two-light windows. Beyond these, the side sections rise to four storeys and also have high-pitched tiled roofs. The red brick eaves cornice is detailed in multiple planes, with five windows on the outer sections appearing plain, while the inner four are closely set and adorned with red brick dressings. Segmental arches in several planes are present over the first and third-floor windows.

The north front consists of three storeys and an attic with five sections, where the central and outer sections project slightly and contain four windows. The outer sections feature three equal windows. There are four gabled dormers, with the outer and central ones being taller and having three and two windows respectively, while the inner ones are lower with two windows. The second-floor windows are low and have a stone cill band.

Segmental brick relieving arches with stone dripmoulds and keys are found over the first-floor windows, which have red brick gauged arches and jambs. A stone-coped first-floor string rests on the keys of the gauged, flat brick arches that lead to the ground floor windows. At the top, a modest hexagonal broach spire is present, with leaded sections above and tiled sections below. This spire features two louvred stages for bells, each topped with a dome, the upper dome being smaller, and is finished with a ball finial and vane.

Local climate

Woodhill 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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