Icklingham Community Centre And The Old School House

Icklingham Community Centre and The Old School House is a former school that now serves as a community centre, along with an attached school house. It was built in 1855 for Charles Edward Gibbs. The building features random knapped flint with limestone dressings and a flint pebble plinth, topped with slate roofs that have stone-coped gables and kneelers, decorative ridge tiles, and cast-iron ventilator cowls on the former school. Designed in the Tudor Revival style, the structure includes a single-storey schoolroom at the front and a two-storey house to the right, forming a cross-wing, with an additional schoolroom at right angles to the rear.

The front schoolroom has a pair of three-light stone mullion and transom windows, with a small arched stone recess in between. The left gable end features a four-light window, a small Latin-cross window above it, and a gabled bell turret. There is a gabled entrance porch at the rear of the left gable end, which has a segmental-headed panel door with original ironmongery. The house has a symmetrical facade facing right, with two two-light stone mullioned windows that have slender horizontal glazing bars. It also includes a gabled entrance porch in a matching style with the original door, and a sunk circular panel in the gable inscribed with the year 1855. The central chimneystack was rebuilt in the mid-20th century. The gable end facing the road has a ground floor stone canted bay with a two-light window above it, and a datestone in the gable in the form of a sunk shield.

Inside, the main schoolroom features an open timber roof with arched-braced hammerbeam trusses. The building was constructed as a National School at a cost of £600, entirely funded by Charles Edward Gibbs of Tuddenham Hall, and its use as a school ended in 1988.