Royal Hospital School and Attached Walls to Right and Left is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1989. Block of houses.

Royal Hospital School and Attached Walls to Right and Left

WRENN ID
hollow-gutter-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1989
Type
Block of houses
Address
Royal Hospital School and Attached Walls to Right and Left, 6-11, Stutton Road, Holbrook
OS grid reference
TM 164 354
Coordinates
51.97496, 1.15077
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Hospital School consists of a block of six houses built around 1925 to 1933 by architects Buckland and Heywood. The structure is made of red brick and features hanging red tiles on the first floor, with a central band. The roof is dark red with plain tiles and has hipped forward gables on both sides. The two central bays project forward and include a Dutch gable, which has stone coping and an elaborate sundial.

The building is two storeys high and has a window arrangement of 1:5:2:5:1, featuring small paned vertically sliding sash windows with moulded surrounds and gauged brick arches on the ground floor. The right and left gables each have two-storey angled bays. The doors are six-panel designs with moulded surrounds and flat canopies supported by brackets, arranged in a 1:2:0:2:1 pattern.

There are pedestrian archways with square heads located centrally in the right and left bays of the main range. The sundial, designed in an elaborate Jacobean style, has a vertical rectangular dial and a metal gnomon inscribed with 'Horas Non Numero Nisi Serenas'. The walls attached to the right and left forward angles extend through the staff accommodation houses of the school and feature panelled gates and round-headed archways.

Local climate

Royal Hospital School and Attached Walls to Right and Left sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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