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Latitude: 52.063 / 52°3'46"N
Longitude: 1.1372 / 1°8'13"E
OS Eastings: 615142
OS Northings: 245155
OS Grid: TM151451
Mapcode National: GBR TMP.LB4
Mapcode Global: VHLBS.NDJW
Plus Code: 9F43347P+5V
Entry Name: Suffolk Record Office and Theatre
Listing Date: 4 August 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1237503
English Heritage Legacy ID: 428797
Also known as: Ipswich Record Office
Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
ID on this website: 101237503
Location: Westbourne, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1
County: Suffolk
District: Ipswich
Electoral Ward/Division: Westgate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Ipswich
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: St Matthew Triangle and All Saints
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Archive
IPSWICH
TM1545 BRAMFORD ROAD
642-0/6/10010 (South side)
Suffolk Record Office and Theatre
II
Board school on Bramford Road, now record office and theatre.
1882. By Brightwen Binyon. Gatacre Road extension 1888 by E
Fernley Bissopp. Red brick with terracotta details;
machine-tiled roofs.
One storey. Bramford Road block has a 5-window range
comprising 3 3-light casements and a 2-light casement at each
end. Gabled roof with central leaded fleche. Flanking this to
right and left is a high gable-end of the east and west
returns. Gable ends fitted with 4-light transomed windows with
4/1 sashes. Punched arcaded decoration in bands right, left
and below. Terracotta band in gable with the legends: Ipswich
School Board (left gable); Bramford Road School (right gable).
Punched roundels in gable heads and further chequered
decoration. Gabled roofs.
Gatacre Road return (east return) has a central arched doorway
with 2 groups of sashes either side. Gatacre Road extension of
1888 has one storey, stepped buttresses and 3 stepped gables
disguised as through-eaves dormers. A further 2 stepped
gable-dormers to the south in a secondary block.
INTERIOR: Bramford Road main block has a roof of false
hammerbeam trusses. Gatacre Road hall has a roof of arched
timber trusses with pierced spandrels.
(Brown C, Haward B, Kindred R: Dictionary of Architects of
Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914: Ipswich: 1991-: 40, 43).
Listing NGR: TM1514245155
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