THETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE

THETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE, BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195953
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: THETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE
Statutory Address:: THETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE, BRIDGE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195953
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: THETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE
Statutory Address 1:: THETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE, BRIDGE 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:: THETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE, BRIDGE STREET

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:: Thetford
National Grid Reference:: TL8677883050

Details

TL8683 617-1/5/19

THETFORD BRIDGE STREET (North West side) Thetford Grammar School Library and attached former stable

GV II

School house until 1881, now the library. 1575, re-worked early C19, rebuilt 1877. Cut flint with red brick and ashlar dressings. Machine tile roofs. L-shaped plan. East front with a gabled porch with a piece of re-used C12 stone decoration in gable. Porch with diagonal buttresses. Right and left is one 4-light mullioned window. Gabled roof with fleche. Large 4-light south window with transom. To right is a twin gabled wing, the gables of different sizes, lit through 2-light mullioned windows and a 3-light cross casement. Gabled roof with 2 triple-flued stacks with star tops. INTERIOR: stone dogleg staircase to first floor. Main ground-floor library divided by a mid C14 stone arch, representing the south crossing tower arch of the Dominican church (qv). May not now be in situ, but position relative to the church remains roughly correct: wave-moulded, 2-centred, polygonal capitals. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to north-east corner is a polygonal former stable. Early C19, brick and of 2 storeys with round-arched openings to ground floor with windows or blank frames above. (Seymour D: Thetford Grammar School: An Outline History: Thetford: 1991-).

Listing NGR: TL8677883050

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Legacy System number:: 384683
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Seymour, D , Thetford Grammar School An Outline History, (1991)

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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.