Royal Hospital School is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1989. School.

Royal Hospital School

WRENN ID
other-obsidian-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Babergh
Constituency
South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 February 1989
Type
School
Address
Royal Hospital School, 48, Stutton Road, Holbrook
OS grid reference
TM 166 352
Coordinates
51.97377, 1.15344
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Hospital School is a house built around 1925 to 1933 by architects Buckland and Heywood. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, accented with darker brick dressings, and features a hipped dark red plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a symmetrical facade with seven bays.

At the center, there is a stone doorcase with raised lugs, a frieze, and a detached pediment. The door consists of six raised and fielded panels, each surrounded by a raised moulded frame. Flanking the door are three narrow vertical horned sash windows with glazing bars, each containing two rows of four panes. The first floor has six similar windows, along with a central circular light that also has glazing bars. The windows are topped with flat-headed arches and have flush surrounds made of the darker brick, which continues as a vertical feature linking the windows of each storey, resembling an apron for the upper floor windows. A brick band runs at the cill level of the ground floor windows.

Local climate

Royal Hospital School 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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