St James's School is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. School. 1 related planning application.

St James's School

WRENN ID
heavy-groin-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheltenham
Constituency
Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
Country
England
Type
School
Address
St James's School, Great Norwood Street, GL50 2BG
OS grid reference
SO 945 213
Coordinates
51.8904, -2.0812
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St James's School, now converted into houses, was built in 1865, as indicated above the door, with the conversion occurring around 1985. The building is constructed from rock-faced coursed squared Cotswold stone rubble, featuring freestone bands and a decorative tile roof, all in the Gothic Revival style. It has an H-shaped plan, with a hall and classroom cross-wings, and an entrance porch angled to the left.

The street front showcases large gables flanking a recessed center with three lower gables. The end gables each have three pointed windows, consisting of three-light stepped lancets topped with trefoil heads and a quatrefoil above. There is also a circular window with a triple quatrefoil above. Each of the center gables features a similar two-light window with a quatrefoil above. The doorway to the left is set in a gabled porch and has a renewed pointed door with a double-chamfered arch and a hoodmould with a finial at the apex. The roof is banded with red tiles and grey scalloped tiles, featuring a fretted ridge, a central hall ventilator with louvred vents, and a tall hexagonal fleche. The side elevations are similar, with four two-light windows but only three gables. The rear windows of the wings have four stepped trefoil-headed lights with a quatrefoil above. The interior has not been inspected. The principal design quality of this otherwise conventionally-planned school is its Middle Pointed Gothic style.

Local climate

St James's School receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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