Suffolk Record Office And Theatre

IPSWICH

TM1545 BRAMFORD ROAD 642-0/6/10010 (South side) Suffolk Record Office and Theatre

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Board school on Bramford Road, now record office and theatre. 1882. By Brightwen Binyon. Gatacre Road extension 1888 by E Fernley Bissopp. Red brick with terracotta details; machine-tiled roofs. One storey. Bramford Road block has a 5-window range comprising 3 3-light casements and a 2-light casement at each end. Gabled roof with central leaded fleche. Flanking this to right and left is a high gable-end of the east and west returns. Gable ends fitted with 4-light transomed windows with 4/1 sashes. Punched arcaded decoration in bands right, left and below. Terracotta band in gable with the legends: Ipswich School Board (left gable); Bramford Road School (right gable). Punched roundels in gable heads and further chequered decoration. Gabled roofs. Gatacre Road return (east return) has a central arched doorway with 2 groups of sashes either side. Gatacre Road extension of 1888 has one storey, stepped buttresses and 3 stepped gables disguised as through-eaves dormers. A further 2 stepped gable-dormers to the south in a secondary block. INTERIOR: Bramford Road main block has a roof of false hammerbeam trusses. Gatacre Road hall has a roof of arched timber trusses with pierced spandrels. (Brown C, Haward B, Kindred R: Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914: Ipswich: 1991-: 40, 43).

Listing NGR: TM1514245155