Block Approximately 15 Metres to North of Gatehouse at Douai School is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. Schoolbuilding.
Block Approximately 15 Metres to North of Gatehouse at Douai School
- WRENN ID
- broken-finial-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1983
- Type
- Schoolbuilding
- OS grid reference
- SU 577 680
- Coordinates
- 51.40842, -1.17149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a school structure located approximately 15 meters north of the gatehouse at Douai School. It was constructed between 1893 and 1895 by F. A. Walters in a Free Tudor Gothic style. The building is made of red brick with stone dressings, featuring plinth and cill string courses. It has a tiled roof adorned with seven gabled casement dormers, shaped gable ends, end stacks, and three cut down stacks that are corbelled from the first floor between the first and second, fourth and fifth, and sixth and seventh bays. The building has two storeys and an attic. The west front consists of seven bays, with two-light leaded windows on the first floor and ground floor cross windows that have arched lights and returned hoodmoulds. It was originally built for St. Mary's College.
Local climate
Block Approximately 15 Metres to North of Gatehouse at Douai School receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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