Royal Hospital School and Walls Attached 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 Walls Attached to Right and Left

WRENN ID
fading-sandstone-sable
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
OS grid reference
TM 164 353
Coordinates
51.97424, 1.15017
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Hospital School consists of a block of four houses built around 1925 to 1933 by Buckland and Heywood. The structure is made of red brick with hanging tiles on the first floor and features a central band. It has a dark red plain tiled roof with forward hipped gables on both the right and left sides, and three chimneystacks along the central ridge. The building is two storeys high and has a window arrangement of 1:6:1, featuring small paned vertically sliding sashes with moulded surrounds and gauged brick arches on the ground floor. There are two-storey angled bays at the right and left gables. Each gable has a pair of central six-panel doors with moulded surrounds and flat canopies supported by brackets, located to the right and left of the gables, respectively. The central pedestrian entrance has a square head. Attached to the right and left are brick walls that continue through the staff accommodation houses of the school, featuring panelled gates in round-headed arches that lead into the rear gardens. The wall on the west side incorporates a bus stop shelter.

Local climate

Royal Hospital School and Walls Attached 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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