OLD SCHOOL ROOM AND OLD SCHOOL HOUSE

OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 4, OLD MARKET STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1180777
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: OLD SCHOOL ROOM AND OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 4, OLD MARKET STREET

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Date:: 2002-06-25
Reference:: IOE01/07905/29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1180777
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: OLD SCHOOL ROOM AND OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 4, OLD MARKET STREET
Statutory Address 2:: OLD SCHOOL ROOM, 2, OLD MARKET STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 4, OLD MARKET STREET
Statutory Address:: OLD SCHOOL ROOM, 2, OLD MARKET STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Mendlesham
National Grid Reference:: TM 10491 65887

Details

MENDLESHAM OLD MARKET STREET TM 16 NW 7/60 No.2 (Old School Room) & - No.4 (Old School House)

GV II Parish room (No.2) and house (No.4). No.2 comprises a C15 house, conveyed to the town of Mendlesham in 1618 for use as a school. No.4 is a former schoolmaster's house, substantially of 1873 but incorporating remains of a workhouse which had been added onto the schoolroom in 1726. No.2 raised in C18 or C19 to accord with later work, but retaining original roof underneath. No.2 timber framed and roughcast-rendered, encased in white brick at rear. No.4 in red brick, the bays divided by pilaster strips; the rear wall is timber framed and rendered. A hipped pantiled roof over the whole range. 2 storeys; No.2 is 1½ storeys internally. No.2 has casement windows, the upper window (formerly a dormer) with diamond-leaded glass. Boarded door. No.4 in 3 bays: inset sash windows with glazing bars under segmental arches, the upper windows half-height. 6-panel door, the upper 2 panels glazed. A central ridge stack. Interior. No.2 has some exposed framing in 2 bays. In partition wall with No.4 is an open truss: slightly cambered tie beam and heavy arched braces. One bay of C17 on-edge joists at each end. Intact C15 common rafter roof, the timbers heavily sooted. A succession of deeds relating to the property from 1536 onwards are in the Suffolk Record Office at Ipswich.

Listing NGR: TM1049165887

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Legacy System number:: 281645
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.