Walthamstow High School for Girls is a Grade II listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. School. 3 related planning applications.
Walthamstow High School for Girls
- WRENN ID
- broken-passage-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Walthamstow MP: Ms Stella Creasy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- School
- Address
- Walthamstow High School for Girls, Church Hill E17, E17 9RZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 377 892
- Coordinates
- 51.58555, -0.01384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walthamstow High School for Girls is a school built in 1913, constructed of red brick with some stone and rubbed brick dressings. It features a plain tile hipped roof that extends to the eaves. The building is two storeys high and has a seven-bay central block with three-bay wings that project forward, connected by one-bay linking blocks. The design follows a symmetrical Neo-Georgian style.
The entrance is marked by a central segmental pediment supported by Ionic columns. The windows are square-headed, with sashes that include small panes and glazing bars. The upper windows are taller and feature timber transoms and brick aprons, with prominent keystones above. There are round-headed stone architraved upper windows in the central and flanking bays. The building is adorned with a modillion cornice and segmental open pediments above the central bays of both the central and outer wings, with the central pediment showcasing carved brickwork. A central domed lantern completes the design.
Local climate
Walthamstow High School for Girls 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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