Suffolk Record Office and Theatre
SUFFOLK RECORD OFFICE AND THEATRE, BRAMFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237503
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Suffolk Record Office and Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- SUFFOLK RECORD OFFICE AND THEATRE, BRAMFORD ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237503
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Suffolk Record Office and Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUFFOLK RECORD OFFICE AND THEATRE, BRAMFORD ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- SUFFOLK RECORD OFFICE AND THEATRE, GATACRE ROAD
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:
- SUFFOLK RECORD OFFICE AND THEATRE, BRAMFORD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- SUFFOLK RECORD OFFICE AND THEATRE, GATACRE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Ipswich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 15142 45155
Details
IPSWICH
TM1545 BRAMFORD ROAD 642-0/6/10010 (South side) Suffolk Record Office and Theatre
II
Board school on Bramford Road, now record office and theatre. 1882. By Brightwen Binyon. Gatacre Road extension 1888 by E Fernley Bissopp. Red brick with terracotta details; machine-tiled roofs. One storey. Bramford Road block has a 5-window range comprising 3 3-light casements and a 2-light casement at each end. Gabled roof with central leaded fleche. Flanking this to right and left is a high gable-end of the east and west returns. Gable ends fitted with 4-light transomed windows with 4/1 sashes. Punched arcaded decoration in bands right, left and below. Terracotta band in gable with the legends: Ipswich School Board (left gable); Bramford Road School (right gable). Punched roundels in gable heads and further chequered decoration. Gabled roofs. Gatacre Road return (east return) has a central arched doorway with 2 groups of sashes either side. Gatacre Road extension of 1888 has one storey, stepped buttresses and 3 stepped gables disguised as through-eaves dormers. A further 2 stepped gable-dormers to the south in a secondary block. INTERIOR: Bramford Road main block has a roof of false hammerbeam trusses. Gatacre Road hall has a roof of arched timber trusses with pierced spandrels. (Brown C, Haward B, Kindred R: Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914: Ipswich: 1991-: 40, 43).
Listing NGR: TM1514245155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428797
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brown, , Kindred, , Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914, (1991), 40, 43
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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