Clare Board School
CLARE BOARD SCHOOL, CALLIS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264713
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Clare Board School
- Statutory Address:
- CLARE BOARD SCHOOL, CALLIS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264713
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Clare Board School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLARE BOARD SCHOOL, CALLIS 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:
- CLARE BOARD SCHOOL, CALLIS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clare
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 76940 45549
Details
1. CLARE CALLIS STREET TL 74 NE Clare Board School 18/801
II
GV
School, now disused, built as National School in 1862. Built in Gothic revival style. Red brick with gault brick quoins and detailing to gables. Early English style windows with gault brick arches, stone tracery, metal glazing bars and stone cills. 4 No. steep pitched gables with parapets and stone coping and kneelers. 3 No. secondary gables. Composite pattern slate roof with diamond shaped horizontal banding. Small tower with slated indented pyramid roof and vertical red and gault brick detailing. Five red and gault brick chimneys. Cast iron railings to Callis Street (Whites Suffolk Directory 1874 - In 1862 handsome National Schools for boys and girls were erected near church at a cost of over £600). Included for Group Value.
Listing NGR: TL7694045549
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427133
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in Suffolk, (1874)
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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