Science School at Winchester College is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 2001. A Edwardian School.
Science School at Winchester College
- WRENN ID
- final-moulding-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 2001
- Type
- School
- Period
- Edwardian
- OS grid reference
- SU 480 287
- Coordinates
- 51.05574, -1.31596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Science School at Winchester College is a school building that houses science laboratories and classrooms, constructed between 1902 and 1905 by Henry L.G. Hill of Chancellor and Hill. It was extended around 1930 by T. D. Atkinson. The building is made of red brick with Portland stone dressings and features slate hipped roofs with a modillion eaves cornice.
The overall plan is U-shaped, with the original eastern front containing three main laboratory/classrooms, two preparation rooms, a staircase, and a corridor across the back. The style of the building is Edwardian Wrenaissance.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical arrangement of bays on the east front, consisting of a 1:5:1:5:1 bay layout. The centre and end bays project forward, with the centre bay featuring a pediment and the end bays topped with pyramidal roofs that have ball-finials at their apexes. The building has a rusticated stone plinth, quoins, moulded cills, and an impost string, along with a heavy moulded cornice at the first-floor level. Above this, there is a superimposed order with Ionic pilasters, festoons in the friezes, and panelled aprons, with volutes below the end windows. The ground floor windows are adorned with Gibbs surrounds and keystones incorporated into arched stringcourses, while the first-floor windows have pediments. The north and south returns each have a 1:1:1 bay arrangement, with the centre bay recessed and similarly decorated as the front. The south elevation was extended to the left by a 4-bay neo-Georgian addition in 1930.
The interior remains largely unaltered and contains classrooms, laboratories, and preparation rooms on both floors, featuring original cupboards, benches, desks, and a stone staircase with an iron balustrade. This building is noted for its rich decoration and is a significant example of the Wrenaissance style at Winchester College.
Local climate
Science School at Winchester College receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% 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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