Hall approximately 25 metres to north of Gatehouse 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. School hall.
Hall approximately 25 metres to north of Gatehouse at former Douai School
- WRENN ID
- muffled-rampart-magpie
- 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 hall
- Address
- Hall approximately 25 metres to north of Gatehouse at former Douai School, RG7 5TZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 577 680
- Coordinates
- 51.4084, -1.17133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a school hall located approximately 25 metres north of the Gatehouse at the former Douai School in Upper Woolhampton. It was constructed between 1893 and 1895, with an addition made to the north in 1915, designed by F. A. Walters in a Free Perpendicular Gothic style. The hall is made of red brick with Bath stone dressings and features a tiled roof, five gabled dormers with casements, and a stack at the front between the third and fourth bays from the left. It is one storey high with an attic.
The north front has six bays, although the right-hand bay is obscured by a later block. The hall includes arched clerestory windows with three arched lights and returned hoodmoulds. There is a low one-storey addition at the front that has three-light mullioned windows and an arched doorway to the left.
Inside, the hall features moulded ceiling beams and a large fireplace at the north end, which has a moulded four-centred arch and a figure in a niche above. The building was originally constructed for St. Mary's College.
Local climate
Hall approximately 25 metres to north of Gatehouse 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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