Guildhall Feoffment County Primary School and Masters House and Attached Walls and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1987. Primary school, master's house. 8 related planning applications.
Guildhall Feoffment County Primary School and Masters House and Attached Walls and Gates
- WRENN ID
- sheer-bailey-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1987
- Type
- Primary school, master's house
- Address
- Guildhall Feoffment County Primary School and Masters House and Attached Walls and Gates, Bridewell Lane, Bury St. Edmunds, IP33 1RE
- OS grid reference
- TL 855 638
- Coordinates
- 52.24178, 0.71602
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Guildhall Feoffment County Primary School and Master's House, along with its attached walls and gates, is a primary school built in 1843 by architect H.E. Kendall. Originally established by the Guildhall Feoffment Trust as a Poor Boys' School, the building features red brick with black brick headers, white brick, and knapped flint dressings, topped with a slate roof.
The school is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and consists of a one-storey school and a one-and-a-half storey house. The main school room has a tripartite gabled front with four-light traceried windows that include mullion and transom divisions, and 4-centred arched heads to the lights, along with intersected tracery heads. There is a brick drip-mould, and two outer single casements with 4-centred arched heads. Below, black headers are arranged in diamonds, and four knapped flint buttresses rise through the parapet of the gable, serving as finials. Blank shields are positioned under the drip mould at the apex, and the roof features a boarded rectangular cupola.
To the left is a battlemented single-storey wing, and to the right is a battlemented screen wall with a 4-centred arched gate, buttresses, and a parapet with a shield. A range that fronts on College Street, built in the same style and contemporary to the main building, was initially detached but is now connected by 20th-century extensions.
The master's house, attached on the right, includes a ground storey rectangular bow with a three-light arch-headed casement and a single-light casement on the first floor. It features clasping angle buttresses and a parapet gable. A brick and flint dwarf wall surrounds the property, with single and double pedestrian wicket gates and gate piers.
Inside the school hall, there is a five-bay open timber roof in Jacobean style, with arch-braced hammer-beam trusses and cusped spandrels on the collar braces, along with square moulded hanging finials and three rows of through purlins. One classroom contains a timber arch-braced collar truss.
Local climate
Guildhall Feoffment County Primary School and Masters House and Attached Walls and Gates 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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