Office Block, Art School and Staff Accommodation Adjoining West Side of Wellington College is a Grade II listed building in the Bracknell Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 2002. Office block, art school, staff accommodation.
Office Block, Art School and Staff Accommodation Adjoining West Side of Wellington College
- WRENN ID
- salt-spire-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bracknell Forest
- Constituency
- Bracknell MP: Peter Swallow (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 2002
- Type
- Office block, art school, staff accommodation
- OS grid reference
- SU 831 634
- Coordinates
- 51.36418, -0.80743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is an office block, art school, and staff accommodation, constructed around 1900. It is located on the south side of Dukes Ride, adjoining the west side of Wellington College.
The structure is made of red brick in English bond, featuring stone dressings and a hipped slate roof, which is lower over the staff accommodation. The layout is long and rectangular, with the staff accommodation at the southern end and the art school at the northwest corner, connected to the office block by a four-bay colonnade.
The exterior consists of single and two-storey sections, with some areas having attics. It is adorned with several tall chimneys that have offset and corniced heads. The windows are sash style with glazing bars. The office block has a stone plinth and moulded brick strings at both the ground floor and first floor levels. The eaves cornice is moulded wood with egg-and-dart ornamentation. The north front features four-bay windows, with the left-hand bay recessed. The windows are set in projecting brick surrounds with moulded segmented heads and stone sills that have scroll decorations. The return front on the west has 18-bay windows and brick pilasters arranged in a pattern of 2:4:2:3:3:1:3, with the last three bays forming a projecting hipped gable.
The staff accommodation section is lower and has eleven bays, with a simpler design. The entrance door is located in bay six, framed in stone with a segmental head, while bay eleven features a semicircular headed opening. The linking section between the two blocks is two storeys with attics and includes a central pedimented dormer in a mansard roof, along with two oeil-de-boeuf windows at the upper first floor level.
The art school is built in red brick Flemish bond with stone dressings and is a single storey with a hipped roof. It has a high stone plinth with moulded base and top, and moulded wooden eaves with egg-and-dart ornamentation. The windows are in projecting surrounds of brick with alternating stone bands and segmental heads featuring keystones. The north and south fronts each have three-bay windows, while the west front has five bays. There are external chimneys that are truncated above eaves level, with moulded cornices and scrolled tops at their bases, and two roof lanterns with ogee tops.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Office Block, Art School and Staff Accommodation Adjoining West Side of Wellington College sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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