Main building and two side wings of former Berkshire College of Art is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. Technical school. 1 related planning application.
Main building and two side wings of former Berkshire College of Art
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Technical school
- Address
- Main building and two side wings of former Berkshire College of Art, Maidenhead Community Centre, 4, Marlow Road, SL6 7YR
- OS grid reference
- SU 885 813
- Coordinates
- 51.5241, -0.72519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main building and two side wings of the former Berkshire College of Art were designed by E J Shrewsbury and completed in 1895 as a Technical School. The structure is made of red brick with terracotta decorations and features Welsh slate roofs. It has a symmetrical design in the Flemish Renaissance style, consisting of a main block that is two storeys high with a basement, featuring a window arrangement of 4:3:4. The central section is taller and projects forward, consisting of three bays and topped with a raised attic that has scrolled flanks and a decorative pediment. The entrance is round-arched and located in a projecting porch, which has a carved balcony above it with a central pedimented name panel. The eaves cornices and window details are made of terracotta, and the building has fancy glazed sash windows and tall conjoined chimney shafts. The one-storey side wings have shaped gables with ball finials above lesenes. A modern extension to the south wing is not of special interest.
Local climate
Main building and two side wings of former Berkshire College of Art sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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