Former Headmaster's House, St Edmund's School is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Headmaster's house.
Former Headmaster's House, St Edmund's School
- WRENN ID
- peeling-wattle-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Headmaster's house
- Address
- Former Headmaster's House, St Edmund's School, St Thomas's Hill, CT2 8HU
- OS grid reference
- TR 133 592
- Coordinates
- 51.29202, 1.05912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Headmaster's House at St Edmund's School was built in 1897 by Sir R. Blomfield. This two-storey building is constructed from ragstone and features a green slate roof topped with a cupola that includes a bell and a weather vane. The house has mullioned and transomed windows, and its entrance is marked by a porch supported by four fluted Ionic pilasters.
Local climate
Former Headmaster's House, St Edmund's School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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