Guildhall Feoffment County Primary School and Masters House and Attached Walls and Gates
GUILDHALL FEOFFMENT COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES, BRIDEWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031122
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall Feoffment County Primary School and Masters House and Attached Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- GUILDHALL FEOFFMENT COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES, BRIDEWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031122
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall Feoffment County Primary School and Masters House and Attached Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUILDHALL FEOFFMENT COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES, BRIDEWELL LANE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GUILDHALL FEOFFMENT COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND MASTERS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATES, BRIDEWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bury St. Edmunds
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85533 63873
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8563NE BRIDEWELL LANE 639-1/11/208 (West side) 11/02/87 Guildhall Feoffment CP School and Master's House & attached walls & gates
GV II
Primary school, with master's house attached, originally built by the Guildhall Feoffment Trust as a Poor Boys' School. 1843, by HE Kendall, architect. Red brick with black brick headers, white brick, knapped flint dressings, slate roof. EXTERIOR: one storey school, one-and-a-half storey house. In Tudor Gothic style. The main school room has a tripartite gabled front with 4-light traceried windows: mullion and transom divisions, 4-centred arched heads to lights, intersected tracery heads. Brick drip-mould. 2 outer single casements with 4-centred arched heads. Black headers in diamonds below, 4 knapped flint buttresses rising through the parapet of the gable as finials. Blank shields under drip mould in apex. Roof with boarded rectangular cupola. Battlemented single-storey wing to left, battlemented screen wall with 4-centred arched gate, buttresses and parapet with shield to right. A range fronting on College Street, contemporary and in the same style but initially detached, is now linked by C20 extensions to the main block. The master's house, attached at the right, has a ground storey rectangular bow with 3-light arch-headed casement; one single-light 1st floor casement. Clasping angle buttresses, parapet gable. Brick and flint dwarf wall with single and double pedestrian wicket gates with gate piers attached. INTERIOR of the school hall has a 5-bay open timber roof in Jacobean style with arch-braced hammer-beam trusses and cusped spandrels to the collar braces. Square moulded hanging finials; 3 rows of through purlins. One classroom has a timber arch-braced collar truss.
Listing NGR: TL8553363873
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466668
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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