Rickinghall Voluntary Controlled Primary School
RICKINGHALL VOLUNTARY CONTROLLED PRIMARY SCHOOL, HINDERCLAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334354
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rickinghall Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- RICKINGHALL VOLUNTARY CONTROLLED PRIMARY SCHOOL, HINDERCLAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334354
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rickinghall Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- RICKINGHALL VOLUNTARY CONTROLLED PRIMARY SCHOOL, HINDERCLAY 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:
- RICKINGHALL VOLUNTARY CONTROLLED PRIMARY SCHOOL, HINDERCLAY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rickinghall Inferior
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 03864 75185
Details
RICKINGHALL INFERIOR HINDERCLAY ROAD (WEST TM 07 NW SIDE) 1/116 Rickinghall Voluntary - Controlled Primary School GV II School. '1853 Rickinghall National School' on datestone, built for £700. Knapped flint with red brick dressings. Steeply pitched fishscale patterned tiled roofs. In a Gothic style, a large 1 storey school room with a T plan 2 storey schoolmaster's house to right. Entrance to right of school room in a low projecting gabled porch, a boarded straphinged door in a chamfered gauged brick pointed arch, moulded kneelers to parapet, small return buttresses and pointed arched windows. To left school room has 3 tall paired lancets breaking eaves with chamfered gauged brick pointed arched heads, intermediate buttresses, 3 gables with kneelers to parapets, datestone with a pointed head in middle gable, on ridge to centre is a small octagonal timber bellcote with pointed arched openings, a leaded spire finial with weathervane. To far left a lower bay projects forward with a gable to front, triple lancets, that to centre taller, parapet, buttresses to returns. Left gable end has triple lancets, that to centre taller, parapet. To right of entrance and projecting slightly further forward than school room is slightly taller house with a gable fronted bay, paired lancets with gauged brick heads, taller on first floor, part opening casements, a blind slit in attic, kneelers to coped parapet. On ridge where house meets school room a cross axial stack with offsets to an oversailing cap. To right a further bay at right angles with a cross axial ridge stack, a lean-to in inner angle to front with a pointed arched door, buttress, parapet. Right gable end ground floor projecting 4- light bay window, first floor paired lancets, parapet. To rear cross gabled bay is flint rubble, a lean-to behind right bay. Schoolroom to rear has a gabled dormer, a plain red brick addition and extending to left another plain red brick addition with triple lancets in left gable end. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TM0386475185
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439721
- 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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