Luckley House School is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Luckley House School
- WRENN ID
- guardian-pinnacle-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1987
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Luckley House School, Luckley Road, RG40 3EU
- OS grid reference
- SU 807 671
- Coordinates
- 51.39807, -0.8402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Luckley House School is a large country house set in landscaped grounds, now functioning as a private school. It was designed in 1907 by Sir Ernest Newton in a free Elizabethan style. The building is constructed of brick, featuring red brick quoins and a hipped tile roof. It has an H-plan layout with significant extensions added in the mid and late 20th century on the northeast side.
The house is two storeys tall with attics and is adorned with two large chimneys, one on each wing, which have clustered diagonal shafts and offset heads on rectangular bases. A smaller chimney is located on the ridge of the central section. The exterior includes a brick plat band and a bold moulded eaves cornice with modillions. The windows are square leaded casements.
The northwest front of the building is symmetrical, with a central section that has three wide bays; the centre bay slightly projects and features a large semi-circular moulded hood above a pair of panelled doors, accessed by two stone steps. Above the entrance, there is a three-light casement window, with four-light casements at both ends on each floor. A small bull's eye window is positioned to the right of the entrance. Each side has projecting wings with flat roof dormers that contain two-light casements.
The southeast garden front mirrors the northwest front's symmetry, featuring three flat roof dormers in the central section and one in each wing. It has a similar central porch with a garden door leading to a small paved terrace. Each projecting wing includes large octagonal bays on the ground floor, which have eight single lights topped with copper domed roofs, and two three-light casements above.
Local climate
Luckley House School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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