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
- broken-mortar-cream
- 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, 28, Stutton Road, Holbrook
- OS grid reference
- TM 163 352
- Coordinates
- 51.9732, 1.14807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Hospital School, built around 1925 to 1933 by architects Buckland and Heywood, is a house made of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring hanging tiles on the first floor central band. It has a hipped dark red plain tiled roof and external stacks on the left and right, with the left stack having shaped stone offset brackets above the eaves. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical facade with a three-window range. The central entrance features a moulded doorcase with fluted brackets supporting a flat canopy, and the door consists of six raised and fielded panels. To the left is a tripartite horned sash window with glazing bars, while the right side has a canted bay window with horned sashes and glazing bars. The first floor has horned sash windows, with the outer windows having four panes by four panes and the central window having three panes by four panes.
Local climate
Royal Hospital School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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