Block Approximately 30 Metres to North East 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. School building.
Block Approximately 30 Metres to North East of Gatehouse at Douai School
- WRENN ID
- tall-corbel-bracken
- 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 building
- OS grid reference
- SU 577 680
- Coordinates
- 51.40839, -1.17096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a school structure located approximately 30 meters to the northeast of the gatehouse at Douai School. It was constructed in 1915, likely designed by Sebastian Pugin Powell. The building is made of red brick with stone dressings and features angle buttresses, string courses at the cill levels, and a continuous drip moulding at the ground floor. The gable ends are coped and parapetted, and the roof is tiled with two stacks. It is designed in a free Tudor Gothic style and consists of two storeys and a garret.
On the south front, there are four first-floor windows with three arched lights, while the ground floor has cross windows with arched upper lights and returned hoodmoulds. The east front features triple lancets in the gable end, with a drip mould raised over the central light. There is a central first-floor canopied niche flanked by two-light windows and returned hoodmoulds, along with a three-light ground floor window that has a segmental arch and hoodmould. The entrance is located on the west side.
Local climate
Block Approximately 30 Metres to North East 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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