Bardwell Voluntary Controlled School is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. School. 1 related planning application.
Bardwell Voluntary Controlled School
- WRENN ID
- keen-truss-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- School
- Address
- Bardwell Voluntary Controlled School, School Lane, IP31 1AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 941 738
- Coordinates
- 52.32878, 0.84727
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bardwell Voluntary Controlled School is a primary school built in 1855. It is a single-storey building constructed from black knapped random flint, topped with a slate roof featuring corbels and copings at the gables. The school has rusticated quoins and dressings made of cement stucco. It features four three-light mullion-and-transom windows designed in a heavy Tudor style. A projecting enclosed gabled porch is present, which has a damaged shield inscribed 'Christo in Parvulis' on the gable end, topped with a small bell-cote and cross. There are two small windows and a door on each side of the porch, one designated for boys and the other for girls, although one door is now blocked. The school was funded by a bequest from Mrs. Anna Maria Dunlap in 1854, and her contribution is commemorated by a plaque on the schoolroom wall.
Local climate
Bardwell Voluntary Controlled School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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