The Strike School is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. School.
The Strike School
- WRENN ID
- pale-rampart-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
- 5321 BURSTON CHURCH GREEN Burston The Strike School TM 18 SW 19/1317
II
- Built in 1917 by public subscription to enable the teachers of the village school to continue to teach the local children after the teachers had been dismissed in 1914 by the education authorities for supporting the farm workers strike. Small single-storey rendered building with front wall of ashlar almost entirely composed of stones with subscribers' names inscribed. Three bays with central doorway with double doors and large flanking casement windows. Continuous moulded impost, and lintels forming frieze beneath the eaves inscribed "Burston 19 Strike 17 School". Tiled roof with gabled ends. Brick chimney stack over right hand front corner. Included for social historical interest.
Listing NGR: TM1366983153
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