Blackheath School of Art is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1992. Art school.

Blackheath School of Art

WRENN ID
worn-roof-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Greenwich
Constituency
Greenwich and Woolwich MP: Matthew Pennycook (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1992
Type
Art school
Address
Blackheath School of Art, 21, Lee Road
OS grid reference
TQ 397 758
Coordinates
51.46468, 0.00986
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Blackheath School of Art is a purpose-built art school constructed between 1896 and 1897 by Edmeston and Gabriel in the Queen Anne style. It is made of Leicester brick and features a Westmoreland slate roof with brick chimney-stacks. The front of the building has a low one-storey range with four brick sash windows, which have horns; only the upper part of these windows has glazing bars, with a vertical bar in the lower half. The front also includes rubbed brick voussoirs with keystones. The side elevation features two similar sash windows and a cambered doorcase. At the rear, there is a taller studio with a gambrel roof and four tall brick chimney-stacks. The interior of the studio boasts a Queen post-type roof, large windows, and sloping windows in the roof designed to take advantage of northern light. There are later extensions to the rear that are not of special interest.

Local climate

Blackheath School of Art 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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