Clare Board School is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1985. School.
Clare Board School
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-wicket-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1985
- Type
- School
- Address
- Clare Board School, Callis Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 769 455
- Coordinates
- 52.08003, 0.58076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clare Board School is a disused school building, originally constructed as a National School in 1862. It is designed in the Gothic revival style, featuring red brick with gault brick quoins and detailing on the gables. The windows are in the Early English style, with gault brick arches, stone tracery, metal glazing bars, and stone cills. The building has four steeply pitched gables with parapets, stone coping, and kneelers, along with three secondary gables. The roof is made of composite pattern slate with diamond-shaped horizontal banding. A small tower is topped with a slated indented pyramid roof and has vertical detailing in red and gault brick. There are five chimneys made of red and gault brick. Additionally, cast iron railings line Callis Street. The school was noted in the Whites Suffolk Directory of 1874, which mentioned that handsome National Schools for boys and girls were built near the church at a cost of over £600. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Clare Board 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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