THE OLD NATIONAL SCHOOL

THE OLD NATIONAL SCHOOL, NEWGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389416
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-2001
List Entry Name:: THE OLD NATIONAL SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: THE OLD NATIONAL SCHOOL, NEWGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389416
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-2001
List Entry Name:: THE OLD NATIONAL SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD NATIONAL SCHOOL, NEWGATE

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:: THE OLD NATIONAL SCHOOL, NEWGATE

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Beccles
National Grid Reference:: TM4225890502

Details

573/0/10001 03-SEP-01

BECCLES NEWGATE (West side) The Old National School

II

Also Known As: The Old National School, MANOR HOUSE LANE

Former National School. Dated 1837. Red and gault brick with some stucco and Welsh slate roof with brick central ridge stack. Simplified Tudor style. Single and 2 storeys. Front to Newgate has 3 coped gables facing with 2-storey former master's house in the centre with a single-storey school room either side. Between the house and rooms and at either end are square gault brick piers. The school rooms have red brick fronts with central doorways with hoodmoulds, that to left with keyblock, and doors, 4-panel to left, plank to right. Above in gables are 3-light windows, that to left with mullions and a stepped hood, that to right a wooden casement with flat hood. The 2-storey centre has a lined stucco front and a 3-light casement with flat hood over 2 taller 2-light casements and a plank door to left, all with flat hoods. Datestone in gable. Right side which faces Manor House Lane has 3 casements, 2 centre-opening and a 9-pane. Doorway with plank double doors to centre left. A little-altered example of a former National School.

Listing NGR: TM4225890502

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Legacy System number:: 488075
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.