The Old School to Rear of Number 140 The Lodge (Number 140 The Lodge Is Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1997. Former school, office.

The Old School to Rear of Number 140 The Lodge (Number 140 The Lodge Is Not Included)

WRENN ID
tired-outpost-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 October 1997
Type
Former school, office
Address
The Old School to Rear of Number 140 The Lodge (Number 140 The Lodge Is Not Included), Eastgate Street, Bury St. Edmunds
OS grid reference
TL 858 644
Coordinates
52.2465, 0.72149
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old School, located to the rear of Number 140 The Lodge, is a former infant school that has been converted into offices. It was built in 1872 on land donated by the Marquis of Bristol. The building features walls made of random knapped flint and small stone blocks, with bands of black knapped flint across the south and west gables, and stone dressings. The roofs are plaintiled, accented with bands of black fishscale tiles, and the structure has a T-shaped plan.

The east-west range of the building has a gambrel roof with pierced and fluted bargeboards supported by heavy double brackets, while the north-south range is gabled, featuring similar bargeboards on the north gable and crested ridge tiles. There are two external chimney stacks made of flint and stone, each with rectangular stone shafts. The building has long 3-light mullioned windows on the north and west gables, which have heavily traceried heads, and a long 4-light window on the south gable with lighter timber mullions and a transom, which may be a replacement. Small cusped trefoil windows are located in the apex of both the north and south gables. The entrance is on the west side, accessed through a heavily timbered and partly open gabled porch. There is also a secondary doorway to the school yard on the south side, which has a stone surround and plank doors.

Inside, the building is divided into two large classrooms, both featuring open timber roofs. The larger north-south room has an arched braced collar form with side purlins, while the smaller east-west room has scissor bracing.

Local climate

The Old School to Rear of Number 140 The Lodge (Number 140 The Lodge Is Not Included) 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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