The Adult Education Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1972. Education centre. 1 related planning application.
The Adult Education Centre
- WRENN ID
- white-rubblework-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Farnham and Bordon MP: Gregory Stafford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1972
- Type
- Education centre
- Address
- The Adult Education Centre, 25, West Street, Farnham, GU9 7DR
- OS grid reference
- SU 837 467
- Coordinates
- 51.21379, -0.80241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Adult Education Centre, formerly known as Farnham Grammar School, is located at 25 West Street and dates back to 1872, with parts rebuilt around 1895 based on a design by Paxton Watson. This two-storey building features four bays, with the end bays projecting forward and having gabled attic storeys. The front is constructed of yellow brick and includes stone string courses, a projecting plinth, and stone quoins and dressings. The roof is red tiled.
The windows are transomed and mullioned, with a small lancet window in the left end bay and a small two-light casement window in the right end bay of the gabled attic storeys. The first floor of the left end bay has a four-light window, each light with a pointed head and a dripstone above. Below this, there is a three-light window and a square-headed stone doorway on the ground floor, along with a single-light window. The third bay features a four-light window on both the first and ground floors, while the right end bay has a four-light window above and a five-light window below. A wrought iron lamp bracket is located below a quadrangular light. An inscription reading "1611. Schola Grammaticalis. 1872" is found on a band below the windows.
This building is part of a group that includes several other listed buildings on the southeast side of West Street, from Nos 18 to 46.
Local climate
The Adult Education Centre receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 1 application
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