School is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1960. School.
School
- WRENN ID
- calm-vault-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1960
- Type
- School
- Address
- School, Gloucester Street, Winchcombe
- OS grid reference
- SP 022 282
- Coordinates
- 51.9526, -1.96875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a school building located on Gloucester Street in Winchcombe, constructed in 1867 and 1897. It features squared and coursed limestone, with some pink stone used in the relieving arches, and has a stone slate roof with coped gables. The building has an L-shaped plan, with a later parallel range added in 1897. It includes a gabled entrance porch, four prominent stacks with moulded cappings, and an octagonal bellcote on the return gable.
The elevation facing the church has a buttressed porch and two steep gables above 2-light windows that have wide mullions and haunched heads, all topped with quatrefoils, with the details set flush to the wall. In the projecting gabled wing on the right, there are two cusped lancets beneath drips, flanked by a deep central buttress that supports a turret. Inside the porch, there is a fine original plank door with decorative straps.
The street elevation features a 3-light plate tracery window in each of the two gables, although the later one on the left has a drip mould and a trefoil opening above it. The interior remains largely as it was originally built, with arch-braced principals and scissors rafters arranged in six bays, divided into two sections of four and two, with a later glazed screen. The dado panelling has a castellated top moulding. This building reflects the philanthropic efforts of the Dent family, with the later wing being patroned by Emma Dent and likely constructed by John Oakey. It is connected by a wall to the School House.
Local climate
School receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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