Fort Pitt Grammar School for Girls (Domestic Science Block) is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. School.

Fort Pitt Grammar School for Girls (Domestic Science Block)

WRENN ID
tangled-forge-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1974
Type
School
Address
Fort Pitt Grammar School for Girls (Domestic Science Block), Fort Pitt Hill
OS grid reference
TQ 749 676
Coordinates
51.38107, 0.51311
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Domestic Science Block of Fort Pitt Grammar School for Girls is an early 19th-century building originally constructed as a barrack block for Fort Pitt, part of a system of Napoleonic forts designed to protect the Medway towns. It later served as a lunatic asylum. The building is made of gault brick in English bond, with a rendered rear and a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate. It stands two storeys tall and features two large ridge stacks. A coped parapet, dentil cornice, and a first-floor sill band extend around the entire structure.

The front (north) elevation has a five-window range, with the five first-floor and two ground-floor windows featuring 24-pane sashes set in reveals beneath flat brick arches. There is a later central porch. A gabled single-storey projection is located to the northwest. The rear of the building is symmetrical with a five-window range, where the windows match those at the front, except for the larger central ground-floor window, which has late 20th-century glazing bars. The sides have horned sashes and smaller inserted windows. Inside, there is a dog-leg staircase.

Local climate

Fort Pitt Grammar School for Girls (Domestic Science Block) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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