School and Assembly Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1984. School, assembly rooms. 1 related planning application.
School and Assembly Rooms
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1984
- Type
- School, assembly rooms
- Address
- School and Assembly Rooms, Abbey Terrace, Winchcombe, GL54 5LW
- OS grid reference
- SP 024 282
- Coordinates
- 51.95245, -1.96638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School and Assembly Rooms, dated 1857, is a building that has served various purposes, including a Working Men's Club, and is now used as Assembly Rooms and commercial premises. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a stone slate roof and features coped gables. The building showcases a modest Victorian Gothic style and is designed in an L-plan with a cross wing that contains the assembly hall, which has a gable facing the street on the left. The main wing runs parallel to the street and has a secondary gable near the right end, set against the steep slope of Ine-yard Street.
The gable is a single storey and features five stepped lancet windows with cusping, situated under a continuous stepped string course and an oculus with mouchettes. A plate glass shop front has been added across the bottom of the main window. The building also includes a 1½ storey section with three gables, which contain two-light ogee-cusped windows under small oculi, and three-light cusped windows below, positioned between two arched entrances. The right gable has a three-light window with a stepped drip over a wider section that projects outwards, containing a smaller three-light window at pavement level.
On the return gable, there are lancets arranged in a 1:3:1 pattern with some cusping, under an oculus similar to the main gable, all above a stepped string course before the quoins. This gable also features a small three-light window and a door. Although the building has been modified for commercial use, many original interior fittings remain intact. It plays a significant visual role in Abbey Terrace and holds social importance for Winchcombe. A small faience tablet on the left-hand end notes that the building treated 809 cases as a hospital between 16 May 1915 and 30 November 1918.
Local climate
School and Assembly Rooms 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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