Grundisburgh County Primary School

GRUNDISBURGH THE GREEN TM 25 SW 2/147 Grundisburgh County Primary School GV II School. Circa 1874. Red brick with bands of blue brick. Steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with gilded and half-hipped ends. Brick lateral stacks at the back and a large truncated stack at the right hand end. Plan : Range of school rooms with cross-wings at either end projecting slightly at the front and a central wing projecting at the rear. Attached at the left hand(south west) end and set back is the contemporary school master's house which is L-shaped on plan. Exterior : Single storey school and 2-storey master's house. The school is not quite symmetrical 2:5:2:5:2 bays. The end bays in half-hipped gabled wings projecting slightly, the left hand wing has two unequal size gables with large pointed arch windows. the right hand gable has two lancets and a bullseye above with diamond panes. The end gables have curved barge boards with pierced circles and leaf designs, the large central gable has no bargeboards but here there are flanking butresses and two large lancets with a band of blue bricks in the arches and a relieving arch of alternating blue bricks with a bullseye in the tympanum with Star of David pattern of glazing bars. Between the gables the 5 bays have narrow square lead windows. Above the central gable at the intersection with the main roof a square wooden bellcote with a battered slate- hung base, louvres and a lead-clad epire with a pretty ornate wrought-iron weathervane. The parches in the inner angles of the projecting end cross-wings have been extended but their original 2-centre arch doorways remain.

The 2-storey schoolmaster's house on the left is set back: L-shaped on plan, gabled and with depressed 2-centred arch windows: a later first floor brick extension in the right hand angle forms a porch below. Around the whole building there are bands of blue brick and a stringcourse of diagonally cogged bricks.

Including the playground area wall at front(south east) probably contemporary with the school, red brick; the battered base is a retaining wall and the wall above has pierced panels of diagonal brickwork and semi-circular coping. The 2 gateways are recessed diagonally and have short flights of steps and small brick gate-piers.

Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM2229451051