Harbridge School and Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. School, house. 2 related planning applications.

Harbridge School and Schoolhouse

WRENN ID
secret-pier-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
New Forest
Constituency
New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 November 1998
Type
School, house
Address
Harbridge School and Schoolhouse, Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley, BH24 3PW
OS grid reference
SU 138 096
Coordinates
50.88652, -1.80508
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Harbridge School and Schoolhouse is a building dating from around 1873, serving as both a school and the master's house. It is constructed from stretcher and Flemish bond red brick, featuring yellow brick dressings, and has a clay plain tile roof with gable ends, pierced shaped bargeboards, and crested ridge tiles. The building has a rendered brick lateral stack with set-offs and is designed in a picturesque Gothic style.

The structure is T-shaped, with the schoolroom located to the northwest and the master's house forming a cross-wing at the southeast end. The exterior includes a single-storey and two-storey house with an asymmetrical southwest front. The master's house is in a gabled cross-wing on the right, featuring a square brick bay window on the ground floor with a tiled canopy, and a three-light pointed arch window with wooden mullions and glazing bars. To the left, the school has two similar two-light windows, with a gable in the angle between that includes a large two-light pointed arch window. There is a gabled porch on the left with a pointed arch doorway and plank double doors. The northwest end gable has a large three-light pointed arch window with intersecting tracery, and the glazing bars of the windows are intact. A fleche is positioned over the school roof.

On the southeast elevation of the master's house, there is a gable on the right with a square brick bay window on the ground floor, a two-light pointed arch window, and a doorway to the left with a tiled canopy. Above the doorway, there is a gabled half-dormer with a pointed arch window. Additionally, there is a small outhouse on the northeast side of the house. Inside, the schoolroom features a ceiled hammerbeam roof.

Local climate

Harbridge School and Schoolhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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