Thetford Grammar School Library and Attached Former Stable
THETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195953
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Thetford Grammar School Library and Attached Former Stable
- Statutory Address:
- THETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195953
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Thetford Grammar School Library and Attached Former Stable
- Statutory Address 1:
- THETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE, BRIDGE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER STABLE, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thetford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL8677883050
Details
TL8683
617-1/5/19
THETFORD
BRIDGE STREET
(North West side)
Thetford Grammar School Library and attached former stable
GV
II
School house until 1881, now the library. 1575, re-worked
early C19, rebuilt 1877. Cut flint with red brick and ashlar
dressings. Machine tile roofs. L-shaped plan. East front with
a gabled porch with a piece of re-used C12 stone decoration in
gable. Porch with diagonal buttresses. Right and left is one
4-light mullioned window. Gabled roof with fleche. Large
4-light south window with transom. To right is a twin gabled
wing, the gables of different sizes, lit through 2-light
mullioned windows and a 3-light cross casement. Gabled roof
with 2 triple-flued stacks with star tops. INTERIOR: stone
dogleg staircase to first floor. Main ground-floor library
divided by a mid C14 stone arch, representing the south
crossing tower arch of the Dominican church (qv). May not now
be in situ, but position relative to the church remains
roughly correct: wave-moulded, 2-centred, polygonal capitals.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to north-east corner is a
polygonal former stable. Early C19, brick and of 2 storeys
with round-arched openings to ground floor with windows or
blank frames above.
(Seymour D: Thetford Grammar School: An Outline History:
Thetford: 1991-).
Listing NGR: TL8677883050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384683
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Seymour, D, Thetford Grammar School An Outline History, (1991)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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