Sergeants, Winchester College is a Grade II listed building in the Winchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 2001. Boarding house. 1 related planning application.
Sergeants, Winchester College
- WRENN ID
- quartered-bastion-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 2001
- Type
- Boarding house
- Address
- Sergeants, Winchester College, Romans Road, SO23 9QR
- OS grid reference
- SU 478 288
- Coordinates
- 51.0574, -1.31792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sergeant's at Winchester College is a boarding house built in 1869, likely designed by G.E. Street. It was later extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features red brick with some stone decorations and has a clay plain tile roof with stone-coped gable ends and pierced ridge tiles, along with brick axial stacks.
The structure has an L-shaped plan, with an extended wing to the west and 20th-century additions to the north and northeast. It showcases High Victorian Gothic and Domestic Revival architectural styles. The exterior is two to three stories tall, with an attic and basement. The east garden front is asymmetrical, featuring a 2:2:5:3 bay arrangement, projecting gables on both sides, and large sash windows with glazing bars set within moulded brick pointed cusped arches. There are later canted and square bays on the ground and first floors, also with large sash windows. A five-bay range is set back to the right of center, with pointed arch windows in tall pointed arch recesses, and the attic has gabled dormers. The south front originally has a four-bay range on the right, with pointed heads to the windows, two asymmetrical gables, a pointed arch doorway, and a timber oriel to the right. To the left is a later 19th-century three-bay extension with two gables, a string course, and large 12-pane sashes with flat gauged brick arches. The right-hand bay is slightly recessed and features segmentally arched sashes with a hipped dormer above. The left gable end has sash windows with glazing bars.
Inside, there are staircases, including one in the master's house with a pierced Gothic balustrade and another for the boys with an iron balustrade. The interior also includes chimneypieces and honours boards.
Sergeant's was purpose-built as a boarding house at Winchester College and was independently run by the housemaster. It is one of the boarding houses designed by a prominent Victorian architect.
Local climate
Sergeants, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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