Fairfield Preparatory School

FAIRFIELD PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 6, NORTH ENTRANCE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1365997
Date first listed:
06-Sept-1974
List Entry Name:
Fairfield Preparatory School
Statutory Address:
FAIRFIELD PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 6, NORTH ENTRANCE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1365997
Date first listed:
06-Sept-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
25-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Fairfield Preparatory School
Statutory Address 1:
FAIRFIELD PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 6, NORTH ENTRANCE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FAIRFIELD PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 6, NORTH ENTRANCE

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Saxmundham
National Grid Reference:
TM3854163425

Details

SAXMUNDHAM

TM3863 NORTH ENTRANCE
841-1/3/33 (West side)
06/09/74 No.6
Fairfield Preparatory School
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTH ENTRANCE
(West side)
No.6
North Lodge)

GV II

House, now school. Early C19 with early C20 porch. Gault
brick; slate hipped roofs with brick stack.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 5-window front with 2-storey bay recessed
to right. Main front centre bay breaks forward and has
single-storey closed porch attached with re-used 6-panel door:
behind is the original fanlight in situ. Fenestration of 8/8
unhorned sashes under gauged skewback arches. Single bay to
right has an elliptical carriage arch to ground floor and an
8/8 unhorned sash above. Rear: 2-storey 2-bay house with
glazed cupola on the roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.



Listing NGR: TM3854163425

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
462160
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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