The Latin School Wye College is a Grade I listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. A Medieval School.
The Latin School Wye College
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-ember-stoat
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- School
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Latin School Wye College, High Street, Wye with Hinxhill
- OS grid reference
- TR 054 468
- Coordinates
- 51.1838, 0.93857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Latin School at Wye College is a schoolroom built around 1445 for Cardinal Archbishop John Kempe. The structure is made of flint, partially refaced with red brick, and features a plain tiled roof. It is a single-storey building with a hipped roof, showcasing two paired and one single four-centred arched lights with label hoods on the front facing the road. There is a boarded door on the left side with a cusped light, both adorned with label heads, and a moulded doorway on the right side. The north side has wooden casements in an outshot.
Inside, there is a fireplace similar to that found in the Parlour of Old Wye College, featuring a four-centred ovolo moulding with fernleaf spandrels and a refined florid strapwork overmantel. Below the central window on the south side, there are ogee-headed panelled wall cupboards. The building was likely originally twice its current size to the north, which accounts for the brick rebuilding. It was established as the Grammar School for Kempe's original College and continued to serve as a Grammar School even after the Dissolution.
Local climate
The Latin School Wye College sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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