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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- 2002-06-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/07905/29
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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281645
- 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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