Bridge House Home School is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. School. 2 related planning applications.
Bridge House Home School
- WRENN ID
- quartered-slate-hawthorn
- 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
- School
- Address
- Bridge House Home School, Mill Lane, Padworth, RG7 4JU
- OS grid reference
- SU 602 671
- Coordinates
- 51.40012, -1.13557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge House Home School is a house that has been converted into a school. It dates from the 18th century, with an early 19th-century addition on the left side. The building is finished in stucco and features a tiled roof with end stacks and three 19th-century gabled dormers that have casement windows on the right side. It has two storeys and an attic, with a total of seven bays. The windows are glazing bar sashes, with glazing bar sashes on the first floor and margin lights on the ground floor, all of which have blind hoods. There is a porch in the third bay from the right that includes two three-panelled doors, a rectangular fanlight with four vertical oval panels, and panelled pilasters topped with a cornice.
Local climate
Bridge House Home School receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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