Eton College Boathouse is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1973. Boathouse.
Eton College Boathouse
- WRENN ID
- second-tin-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1973
- Type
- Boathouse
- Address
- Eton College Boathouse, Brocas Street, SL4 6BW
- OS grid reference
- SU 966 772
- Coordinates
- 51.4859, -0.60933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eton College Boathouse is an early 18th-century red brick building situated facing the River Thames, with modern additions towards the street. The structure has two storeys and attics, featuring four double-hung sash windows and one casement window. The ground floor includes four wide openings designed for boats, while the first floor has a right-hand 18th-century oriel wood bay with three windows, weather boarding, and two side windows in the main wall, all framed with wood architraves. The building is topped with a modillion brick cornice, an old tile roof, and four dormers. It is noted as the only building of significant character facing the river.
Local climate
Eton College Boathouse 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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