E House adjoining Big School to south west, Bradfield College is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. Dormitory, classroom.
E House adjoining Big School to south west, Bradfield College
- WRENN ID
- peeling-grate-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- Dormitory, classroom
- Address
- E House adjoining Big School to south west, Bradfield College, RG7 6BQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 603 725
- Coordinates
- 51.44881, -1.13238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
E House, located to the south-west of the Big School at Bradfield College, is a building constructed in 1868, likely designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in a neo-Gothic style. The structure is made of flint with red brick dressings and lacing courses, featuring Bath stone window dressings and alternating brick and tile segmental relieving arches above the windows. The roof is covered with old tiles and has four stacks on the north-west side, along with five tile-hung gabled eaves dormers that contain twin sash windows.
The building has a gabled cross wing that projects to the left, which includes three attic sash windows. There is a central projection between the second and third dormers from the left, adorned with a rose window in the gable end, and one tile-hung gabled eaves dormer with twin sash windows on both the left and right-hand return fronts. The building is one and a half storeys high.
On the south-east front, all windows are sash. The first floor features three two-light mullioned windows in the central gabled projection. The central ground floor has a mullioned window with three Caernarvon arched lights, flanked by one-light Caernarvon arched windows. Each floor of the left and right-hand return fronts has one two-light mullioned window, with the ground floor windows having Caernarvon arched heads. To the right of the central projection, there are five first floor windows, two ground floor mullioned windows with two Caernarvon arched lights, and one Caernarvon arched window to the left. The central first-floor two-light mullioned window is flanked by one-light windows to the left of the central projection, and there are two ground floor mullioned windows to the right with two Caernarvon arched lights. The cross wing to the left has three first floor windows, a ground floor mullioned window to the right with three Caernarvon arched lights, and a segmental arched boarded door to the left with a projecting brick surround.
Local climate
E House adjoining Big School to south west, Bradfield College 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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