The Royal Free Schools is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1975. Educational.
The Royal Free Schools
- WRENN ID
- fossil-spandrel-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1975
- Type
- Educational
- Address
- The Royal Free Schools, Bachelor's Acre
- OS grid reference
- SU 966 766
- Coordinates
- 51.48061, -0.60909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Free Schools, built in 1859 by architect G E Street, is a Gothic-style building made of red brick with a gabled slate roof. The front features two gables, with the left one being half-hipped. The right gable includes a large four-light tracery window with a transom. In the center, there is a half-hipped dormer with a tracery window, and to the left of this dormer is a chimney. The buildings at Nos 5 and 7 Bachelor's Acre, which flank The Royal Free Schools, contribute to the group value of the site.
Local climate
The Royal Free Schools 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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