Education Offices (Former Grammar School) is a Grade II* listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1952. A C17 School.
Education Offices (Former Grammar School)
- WRENN ID
- ruined-render-cream
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1952
- Type
- School
- Address
- Education Offices (Former Grammar School), George Lane, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 546 557
- Coordinates
- 50.38343, -4.04627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former grammar school, now known as the Education Offices, was built in 1664. It features coursed polychrome rubble with granite dressings and steep slate roofs with coped gable ends, kneelers, and finials. The building has a T-shaped plan, with an arcaded front range that includes a schoolroom on the first floor and a schoolmaster's house in a cross wing at the rear center. There is also a later lean-to structure in the rear right-hand corner.
The exterior is two storeys high and includes a seven-bay arcade with two-centred arches supported by Tuscan columns, along with relieving arches. There are two similar bays on the left-hand return and a mid-floor string course. The first floor features four large transomed mullioned windows on the front, with two similar windows at the rear on either side of the wing. At each end of the building, there is a two-centred arched six-light window with Perpendicular tracery. The wing is three storeys tall, with the upper floor mostly within the roof space, and includes two three-light and two two-light mullioned windows on the west elevation, a three-light window on the first floor of the east elevation, and an altered window on the second floor.
Inside, there is a moulded round-arched doorway leading from the rear loggia into the wing, along with a 20th-century staircase in the wing and a heavy moulded door frame with carved stops on the first floor. Historically, Joshua Reynolds, the famous painter, was a pupil at this school, and his father served as a master there. This building is a notable example of its type and date, showcasing the Perpendicular Gothic Survival style with some Classical influences evident in the proportions and spacing of its openings.
Local climate
Education Offices (Former Grammar School) receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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