St Catherine's School and Upper Retaining Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. School. 3 related planning applications.
St Catherine's School and Upper Retaining Wall
- WRENN ID
- night-balcony-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- School
- Address
- St Catherine's School and Upper Retaining Wall, 26a, Portsmouth Road, GU2 4DH
- OS grid reference
- SU 993 488
- Coordinates
- 51.23044, -0.57868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Catherine's School, now a drama studio, was built around 1870 in a Gothic style. The building features random Bargate rubblestone and blocks with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a plain-tiled roof. It has two storeys on the right side over a plinth and one storey on the left, with a retaining wall at below basement level across the front. The right side has a gable end range with a louvred lancet opening at the apex. Below this is a four-light window under a Tudor-style pointed head, which has trefoil tracery in the upper lights. To the left, there is a stone-dressed ogee-headed five-light window with stone mullions in a chamfered surround. An octagonal turret is positioned to the right of the gable on a brown plinth, featuring trefoil openings on each face. Further to the right, there is a two-windowed range set back, which has 20th-century casement windows on both floors and a door located in a pentice porch at the re-entrant angle.
Local climate
St Catherine's School and Upper Retaining Wall receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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