Brooklands Technical College (Brooklands House) is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Educational. 4 related planning applications.
Brooklands Technical College (Brooklands House)
- WRENN ID
- slow-vault-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Runnymede and Weybridge MP: Dr Ben Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Educational
- Address
- Brooklands Technical College (Brooklands House), Heath Road, KT13 8TT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 069 637
- Coordinates
- 51.36248, -0.46508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brooklands Technical College, originally Brooklands House, is a house that has been converted into a college. It was built in 1860 and largely rebuilt in 1891 by Sir Reginald Blomfield in a free Queen Anne style. The building is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and features plain tiled roofs that are hipped to the left. It has a square lead ogee dome to the right and tall chimney stacks beneath gauged brick cornices.
The main house consists of five bays, with a gable front bay to the left and a two-bay wing at the left end that has a flat roof. This wing connects to a tower and a seven-bay wing to the right, which projects forward to create a courtyard in the re-entrant angle. The structure has three storeys with attics, featuring five pedimented dormers on the main block, a central segmental pediment, and a "Venetian" style attic window in the gable front bay. The ends of the building have brick quoins, with plat bands above the ground and first floors, and a modillion cornice at the second floor.
The windows are irregularly arranged and consist of glazing bar sash windows beneath gauged brick heads, including a large round-arched staircase window to the right and a round window in the right-hand tower. There are double plate glass doors at the center of the main block beneath a flat hood, with additional doors to the left in the gabled bay. A square clock face in a stone surround with cill brackets is located on the courtyard front of the tower, which has a rendered finish at the rear corner.
The rear, or garden front, has six bays, two of which are gabled with three-light dormers in the center. There is a large "Venetian" style window on the ground floor to the left, framed by an Ionic oilaster surround. The 20th-century extensions at the front are not included in the listing.
Local climate
Brooklands Technical College (Brooklands House) 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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