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The Old National School

A Grade II Listed Building in Beccles, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4587 / 52°27'31"N

Longitude: 1.5645 / 1°33'52"E

OS Eastings: 642258

OS Northings: 290502

OS Grid: TM422905

Mapcode National: GBR XMD.SF7

Mapcode Global: VHM6K.2GFJ

Plus Code: 9F43FH57+FQ

Entry Name: The Old National School

Listing Date: 3 September 2001

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1389416

English Heritage Legacy ID: 488075

ID on this website: 101389416

Location: Beccles, East Suffolk, NR34

County: Suffolk

District: East Suffolk

Civil Parish: Beccles

Built-Up Area: Beccles

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Beccles St Michael and Saint Luke

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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Description


573/0/10001
03-SEP-01

BECCLES
NEWGATE
(West side)
The Old National School

II

Also Known As: The Old National School, MANOR HOUSE LANE

Former National School. Dated 1837. Red and gault brick with some stucco and Welsh slate roof with brick central ridge stack. Simplified Tudor style. Single and 2 storeys. Front to Newgate has 3 coped gables facing with 2-storey former master's house in the centre with a single-storey school room either side. Between the house and rooms and at either end are square gault brick piers. The school rooms have red brick fronts with central doorways with hoodmoulds, that to left with keyblock, and doors, 4-panel to left, plank to right. Above in gables are 3-light windows, that to left with mullions and a stepped hood, that to right a wooden casement with flat hood. The 2-storey centre has a lined stucco front and a 3-light casement with flat hood over 2 taller 2-light casements and a plank door to left, all with flat hoods. Datestone in gable. Right side which faces Manor House Lane has 3 casements, 2 centre-opening and a 9-pane. Doorway with plank double doors to centre left.
A little-altered example of a former National School.

Listing NGR: TM4225890502

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