Cullum House and the Old Primary School and Outbuilding Adjacent to the Rear is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. House, school.
Cullum House and the Old Primary School and Outbuilding Adjacent to the Rear
- WRENN ID
- heavy-tower-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1984
- Type
- House, school
- OS grid reference
- TL 859 590
- Coordinates
- 52.19839, 0.71899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cullum House and the Old Primary School, along with an adjacent outbuilding, is a building complex dating from 1847. The structure is arranged in a Y-plan, with the schoolroom forming the long arm of the layout. It is primarily one storey high, with some parts having one and a half storeys and attics. The exterior is constructed of flint rubble with red brick quoins and features Flemish parapet gables. The roofs are covered with fish-scale slates and topped with crested ridge tiles.
The axial chimney is made of red brick and has three circular flues, which are adorned with diaper-carved tiled shafts and a moulded cap and base, along with a plinth featuring a band of diaper-patterned tiles. The windows are hood-moulded, with two-light designs and wrought iron casements that have hexagonal panes. The schoolroom windows are also hood-moulded but feature triple small-pane sliding sashes.
There is a one-storey entrance porch with a Flemish gable, which includes a hood-moulded doorway and a carved limestone plaque above that displays a coat of arms. The entrance doors are battened and boarded.
At the rear, there is an adjacent outbuilding that was formerly the toilet block for the school. This single-storey structure is contemporary with the main building and is also made of flint with red brick dressings, topped with a low-pitch hipped slate roof. It features iron casements with hexagonal panes and has various doorways, along with a central brick stack that has an octagonal flue. This outbuilding forms a cohesive group with Cullum House and the Old Primary School.
Local climate
Cullum House and the Old Primary School and Outbuilding Adjacent to the Rear 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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