Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE EASTGATE STREET
639-1/8/351 (South side)
The Old School to rear of No.140 The
Lodge (No.140 The Lodge is not
included)

GV II

Former Infant School, now offices. Built 1872 on a site given
by the Marquis of Bristol. Walling in random knapped flint and
small stone blocks; bands of black knapped flint across the
south and west gables; stone dressings. Plaintiled roofs with
bands of black fishscale tiles. T-shaped plan.
EXTERIOR: the east-west range has a gambrel roof with pierced
and fluted bargeboards supported on heavy double brackets; the
north-south range is gabled with similar bargeboards to the
north gable and crested ridge tiles.
2 external chimney-stacks in flint and stone have rectangular
stone shafts. Long 3-light mullioned windows to the north and
west gables with heavily traceried heads; a long 4-light
window to the south gable with lighter timber mullions and
transom may be a replacement. Small cusped trefoil windows in
the apex of the north and south gables.
Entrance on the west side within a heavily timbered and partly
open gabled porch. A secondary doorway to the school yard on
the south side has a stone surround. Plank doors.
INTERIOR: divided into 2 large class rooms, both with open
timber roofs: in the larger north-south room with an arched
braced collar form and side purlins; in the smaller east-west
room with scissor bracing.

Listing NGR: TL8588764411

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26645504

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)