Clare Board School

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.