Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former Douai School is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1983. Gatehouse. 12 related planning applications.
Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former Douai School
- WRENN ID
- waning-dormer-bramble
- 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
- Gatehouse
- Address
- Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former Douai School, Abbey Gardens, Upper Woolhampton, RG7 5TZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 577 680
- Coordinates
- 51.40817, -1.17128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gatehouse and flanking blocks were built in 1893-5 as part of the former Douai School, designed by F A Walters in a neo-Gothic style. The buildings are constructed of red brick with Bath stone dressings, featuring a plinth, corbel table, and a coped, battlemented parapet. The roof is not visible.
The gatehouse tower is three storeys high. Windows on the first and second floors have two cusped lights, with the second-floor windows being arched and hooded. Flanking these windows are two canopied niches containing figures. A central, moulded four-centered archway has a hoodmould, and carved coats of arms are positioned above it on either side. Short brick walls project from each side of the gatehouse, incorporating stone coping, square piers, finials topped with carved coats of arms, and lamps.
The left-hand block has a brick cill course and a tiled roof with a central ridge stack. A parapetted, gabled semi-dormer is situated to the left. The block is two and a half storeys high, with three two-light windows on each floor. A first-floor window to the left has a four-centered arched shape with a transom and Y-tracery.
The right-hand block is also of red brick with cill courses, and has a tiled roof with two gables featuring planted timbers and casements. It is two storeys high with an attic. Two canted bays rise to the first floor, each with a coped parapet and mullioned, transomed windows. Originally, these buildings were constructed for St. Mary's College.
Local climate
Gatehouse and flanking blocks at former 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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- Sale history — 14 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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