The Old School House
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031211
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031211
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, THE STREET
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.
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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Troston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 89703 72249
Details
TL 87 SE TROSTON THE STREET (WEST SIDE)
2/64 The Old School House -
GV II
Former school house. Built in 1873, at the expense of Robert Emlyn Lofft of Troston Hall, in a Gothic style to match the adjacent village school. Single storey: half-H plan, with 2 wings north and south extending to the rear, and projecting slightly in front. Brick: 4 courses of red bricks alternating with one course of black-faced bricks, all with moulded faces: plain black-faced bricks to rusticated quoins and window surrounds: high brick copings to gables. Plaintiled roofs, with bands of fishscale tiles, and fluted ridge tiles. 3 internal chimney-stacks: 2 to front range each have one shaft of moulded brick with a plain shaft behind it. The front has 2 2-light casement windows in rectangular surrounds of chamfered brick, with a small circular window in the gable above: both circular windows and the north casement window have been blocked with flush panels of random knapped flint. There are also flint panels on each side of the central doorway, which contains a C20 half-glazed door, flanked by 2 small windows.
Listing NGR: TL8970372249
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284257
- 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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