The Village School is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1983. School.
The Village School
- WRENN ID
- dim-screen-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1983
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Village School, the Street, Cobham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 671 684
- Coordinates
- 51.39044, 0.40111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village School, dated 1874, is located on the north side of The Street in Cobham. It was designed by T M Wyatt and features a flint façade with bands of yellow brick and dog tooth moulding. The building has a high-pitched tiled roof and an H-shaped main block with gables on the end wings. There are picturesque school houses of irregular plan at the north-west and north-east corners, which match the style and materials of the main building. The school has tall casement windows with mullions and transoms, and a south-facing circular window in the east gable. A central bell turret is positioned on the ridge. This school is typical of village schools from the period but is exceptionally well built and showcases distinctive features. It was given to the village by the Darnley family.
Local climate
The Village School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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