Former British School is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 2000. School. 2 related planning applications.
Former British School
- WRENN ID
- calm-gargoyle-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 2000
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former British School, Bridge Road, Godalming, GU7 3DU
- OS grid reference
- SU 974 442
- Coordinates
- 51.189, -0.60742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former British School, now a nursery, largely dating from 1872, with earlier origins in a building of 1813, and later additions around 1900 and in the 20th century. The main 1872 structure is built of Bargate stone rubble with Bath stone dressings and gabled slate roofs, featuring fretted wooden bargeboards and cast iron cresting. The building is of Gothic style and symmetrical, with a central hall and wings housing one or two classrooms on either side.
The front of the building has a single storey and features eight casement windows. The central section is recessed with gables, each adorned with fretted wooden bargeboards and tall twelve-light windows. A prominent circular tower projects centrally, with a chamfered base supported by buttresses, an octagonal section displaying trefoil heads and pointed canopies, a band of quatrefoils, a clock face at the top, and a delicate stone spire with a cast iron finial. The central doorway has been blocked. Projecting gabled wings flank the tower, also with fretted wooden bargeboards, trefoil decorations to the gables, and central ten-light casements flanked by four-pane lights. Dedication stones are at the base of each gable, marking the cornerstones of both the 1813 and 1872 buildings. The right elevation includes a half-hipped gable with fretted bargeboards and an eight-light window; a 20th-century door has been added below. There are further four-light windows. The left elevation has a similar half-hipped gable and window, with a 20th-century door replacing the original. An early 20th-century brick and glazed square porch is also present. To the rear of the side elevations are small extensions dating from around 1900, built of red brick in stretcher bond with stone dressings and tiled roofs, featuring mullioned and transomed windows. A flat-roofed brick extension was added to the rear in the 20th century.
The interior has 20th-century suspended ceilings, obscuring the original roof trusses. An original glazed screen remains in the left wing.
Local climate
Former British School 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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