Former GWR School is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. School. 1 related planning application.

Former GWR School

WRENN ID
sacred-footing-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1986
Type
School
Address
Former GWR School, Great Western One, Bristol Street, South Swindon, SN1 5ET
OS grid reference
SU 143 847
Coordinates
51.5612, -1.79383
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former GWR School is an infants' school built in 1857 by Moffatt and Scott. It is the only remaining part of the original school complex. The school closed in 1879, and the earlier buildings from 1843-1844 were demolished in 1881. After its closure, the former infants' school was repurposed as a works' laboratory. In 1883, a single-storey extension for the Great Western Railway's horse-drawn wagons was added to the north. The building features rock-faced snecked rubble in black mortar, with ashlar limestone quoins, and has a slate roof with apex rooflights. It is a single storey with four bays of paired shouldered lights and slightly projecting stacks that diminish at the eaves offsets.

Local climate

Former GWR School receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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