Holme Grange School is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1986. School. 3 related planning applications.

Holme Grange School

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 January 1986
Type
School
Address
Holme Grange School, Holme Green, Wokingham Without, RG40 3AL
OS grid reference
SU 827 671
Coordinates
51.39781, -0.81205
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holme Grange School is a large house that has been converted into a private school. It was built in 1883 by R. Norman Shaw in the Tudor vernacular style. The building is constructed of brick, with the upper floor being tile hung and a tiled roof featuring several gables and moulded bargeboards. It has an irregular plan and stands two storeys high, with several large brick chimneys that have offset heads and some with fluted shafts. The windows are a mix of mullion and mullion and transom types, all with leaded lights.

The entrance front features a central porch with a four-centred gothic arch and a large mullion and transom window above it. To the right of the porch are two oversailing gables. On the left side of the porch, there are two four-light windows that break the eaves and have small hipped roofs, while at right angles to these are two gables of unequal pitch.

The garden front is irregular, with the main feature being a large projecting chimney stack that has ribs and crow stepped, coped sides above the eaves level. To the left of this chimney stack is a two-storey canted bay window with a hipped roof. To the right of the chimney, and at right angles, is a large mullion and transom window, with gables recessed to the right of this window. There is also a gravelled terrace adjoining this front, which has a brick retaining wall, a central flight of six brick steps, and small piers leading down to wide lawns.

Local climate

Holme Grange 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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