The Old School To Rear Of Number 140 The Lodge (Number 140 The Lodge Is Not Included)

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE EASTGATE STREET 639-1/8/351 (South side) The Old School to rear of No.140 The Lodge (No.140 The Lodge is not included)

GV II

Former Infant School, now offices. Built 1872 on a site given by the Marquis of Bristol. Walling in random knapped flint and small stone blocks; bands of black knapped flint across the south and west gables; stone dressings. Plaintiled roofs with bands of black fishscale tiles. T-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: the east-west range has a gambrel roof with pierced and fluted bargeboards supported on heavy double brackets; the north-south range is gabled with similar bargeboards to the north gable and crested ridge tiles. 2 external chimney-stacks in flint and stone have rectangular stone shafts. Long 3-light mullioned windows to the north and west gables with heavily traceried heads; a long 4-light window to the south gable with lighter timber mullions and transom may be a replacement. Small cusped trefoil windows in the apex of the north and south gables. Entrance on the west side within a heavily timbered and partly open gabled porch. A secondary doorway to the school yard on the south side has a stone surround. Plank doors. INTERIOR: divided into 2 large class rooms, both with open timber roofs: in the larger north-south room with an arched braced collar form and side purlins; in the smaller east-west room with scissor bracing.

Listing NGR: TL8588764411