School of Arts Annexe is a Grade I listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1952. Arts annex. 2 related planning applications.
School of Arts Annexe
- WRENN ID
- frozen-cloister-coral
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1952
- Type
- Arts annex
- Address
- School of Arts Annexe, 4, New Street, Salisbury, SP1 2PH
- OS grid reference
- SU 145 297
- Coordinates
- 51.06717, -1.79419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School of Arts Annexe, dating from the 18th century, is a two-storey building with an attic. It features an elaborate symmetrical design made of red brick set on a stone plinth. The first floor has a stone string course, and all windows are adorned with stone architraves. A stone moulded and bracketed cornice runs along the top, leading to a tall parapet that includes recessed vitreous brick panels on the left side and small windows in the center and right side. The roof is half hipped and covered with old tiles.
At the center of the building is a prominent two-storey angular bay that extends into the attic. This bay is supported by four Doric columns and features a cornice that wraps around it, topped with a hipped roof projection. The bay contains three windows on the upper floors and two narrow windows on the ground floor, which flank a six-panel central door that has a notable knocker. Each side of the bay has three additional windows. All ground and first-floor windows are embellished with triple keystones, and the architrave of the ground floor windows extends down to the plinth.
Each gable end showcases a large semi-circular three-light attic window, with one window below it on the first floor. Inside, there is a late 18th-century staircase and some fine contemporary panelling. To the right, there is a three-storey extension made of red brick, featuring a hipped old tile roof, stone cornice, and semi-circular three-light windows on each floor facing the street.
Local climate
School of Arts Annexe receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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