The Teaching Centre, Henry Box School is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1988. School/teacher's centre.
The Teaching Centre, Henry Box School
- WRENN ID
- low-steeple-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1988
- Type
- School/teacher's centre
- Address
- The Teaching Centre, Henry Box School, Church Green, Witney
- OS grid reference
- SP 355 093
- Coordinates
- 51.78128, -1.48563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Teaching Centre at Henry Box School is a former police station, built in 1860 by William Wilkinson. It features squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and a hipped Welsh slate roof, complete with stone end and ridge stacks. The building is designed in an H-plan layout with a main block and a range to the rear right, showcasing a Tudor style with French influences.
The structure has two storeys and a four-window range arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern. The central range has a gabled centre that includes two stone pointed-arched tripartite windows with sashes above a three-bay arcade. Inside the arcade are two plank doors and a three-light stone-mullioned and transomed window, all featuring pointed-arched heads. There are also plank doors leading to a carriage entry on the left side. The front of the side wings has similar windows along with one-light ground-floor windows and a string course.
The rear range, constructed from similar materials, is a one-storey section with a three-window range that includes two plank doors set in stop-chamfered architraves and stone-mullioned and transomed windows. Inside, the stairs to the left have chamfered newels and balusters.
Local climate
The Teaching Centre, Henry Box School receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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