Charles Kingsley's Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Hart local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 2003. School. 5 related planning applications.
Charles Kingsley's Primary School
- WRENN ID
- heavy-pillar-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hart
- Constituency
- North East Hampshire MP: Alex Brewer (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 2003
- Type
- School
- Address
- Charles Kingsley's Primary School, Eversley, RG27 0LX
- OS grid reference
- SU 783 615
- Coordinates
- 51.34766, -0.87676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Charles Kingsley's Primary School is a school built in 1853, originally as a National school, with extensions added in 1901 and later in the 20th century. The building is made of red brick, partly covered with tiles and features applied timber-framing with rendered panels. It has plain tile roofs with gabled ends and brick stacks.
The original 1853 school consists of a large school room with the master's house located on the right (south). A cross-wing school room was added in 1901 on the left (north). Later 20th-century single-storey classrooms were added at the rear (east), but these are not included in the listing. The building is designed in a Victorian Picturesque style.
The exterior features a single-storey school and a one-storey and attic master's house. The school on the left showcases applied timber-framing with a three-bay front, a band of multi-pane windows under the eaves, and a central bay with timber raking buttresses leading up to a large glazed gabled bay with a tile-hung gable. There is a large gabled timber-framed porch on the right, while the master's house projects on the right with a twin tile-hung gabled front, bands of scalloped tiles, and casement windows with glazing bars. The right (south) end has a small canted bay and a gabled rear (east). The 1901 cross-wing extension, known as the Kingsley Memorial Room, is on the left (north) and features applied timber-framing with roughcast panels, a gabled front with a gabled brick porch, and large windows above with similar windows under twin gables on the left (north) return.
Inside, the 1853 school room has an open three-bay timber roof with arch-braced trusses on brackets, curved struts above the collars, and exposed purlins and common-rafters. There is a fireplace in the lateral stack at the back. The master's house includes a simple stick-baluster staircase, chimneypieces, and panelled and plank doors. The 1901 school room extension has a carved wooden plaque inscribed with 'Kingsley Memorial Room, Easter 1901; T. Chipchase sc'.
The school is named after Charles Kingsley, who served as the rector at Eversley.
Local climate
Charles Kingsley's Primary School receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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