St Aubyns School is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1971. School. 5 related planning applications.

St Aubyns School

WRENN ID
stubborn-chamber-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP: Chris Ward (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 August 1971
Type
School
Address
St Aubyns School, 76, High Street, Rottingdean, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN2 7JN
OS grid reference
TQ 369 023
Coordinates
50.80435, -0.05743
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Aubyn's School is a detached house that has been converted into a school. It dates from the early 19th century and features later additions. The building is constructed of brick, stucco, and mathematical tiles, with a slate roof. It has two storeys over a basement and dormers in the attic, with a total of thirteen windows.

The original structure is a double-fronted range with wings that project forward on either side, featuring additional canted ends and a flat-roofed wing to the north. The entrance is flat-arched and is sheltered by a Doric porch that is now partly enclosed. All windows are flat-arched, and there are two-storey segmental bays on either side of the entrance with tripartite windows and mathematical tiles in the spandrels. The ground floor is made of painted brick, while the first floor is stuccoed, with a sill band for the first-floor windows. The building has a moulded cornice and parapet, with a single-window range between the central range and the wings, which have a window on each side of their three faces on both floors. These windows lack architraves but feature a storey band and a continuous cornice from the main range. The dormers are located in the mansard roof over the central range, and there are end stacks with hipped roofs on the wings.

The interior has not been inspected. This building has been used as a school since 1832.

Local climate

St Aubyns School receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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