NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY

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1 Name of school Photo reference Thelveton Public Elementary

Thelveton Diss IP21 4EL A large single-room school built in

1 1 Name of school Photo reference Thelveton Public Elementary School Thelveton 1-6 Grid Reference TM Is the building listed? No School Address The Old School House Norwich Road Thelveton Diss IP21 4EL A large single-room school built in 1878 and now incorporated into private house. Photograph Photograph Teacher s house,east gable North gable of school room

2 Teacher s house- south elevation Teacher s house-west elevation Document references Building plans in NRO Building plans in other Sale particulars in NRO Sale particulars in other Log books in NRO

sources 1903 School survey ACC 209/304 p406 There is but one room, length 26, breadth 18 10 and height 16 9, containing two cupboards and a museum.

2 2 Teacher s house- south elevation Teacher s house-west elevation Document references Building plans in NRO Building plans in other Sale particulars in NRO Sale particulars in other Log books in NRO C/ED 2/ Log books in school Photographs in NRO Other docs in NRO Photographs in other Other doc.sources 1903 School survey ACC 209/304 p406 There is but one room, length 26, breadth and height 16 9, containing two cupboards and a museum. Directory entry (1920s or nearest date) White s Directory 1883 p.725 There is a good school for 40 children which, with the teacher s house adjoining was built by T.Mann in 1875 by whom it is maintained Kelly s Directory 1925 p.505 Erected by the late T.Mann for 48 children NCC Ed.Com. Development Plan 1947 p children 5-14; closure 1959/60

3 Date of construction Erected by T. Mann for 48 children 3 Architects (if known) Position within parish Catchment area in 1940s Opposite entrance to Thelveton Hall Thelveton (mainly for children from Thelveton Estate) No plan in the 1903 survey Plan describe or include scan How many storeys One (Second floor inserted in 1970s) How many rooms Present use Name of present owner One Residential and business premises Thelveton Estate Condition (1 =derelict 5 = good) 5 Is there a teacher s house associated with school? Give some idea of date, size and style Yes - occupying the larger southern portion of the building. Kitchen and Parlour on ground floor, with two bedrooms above. Each room having a fireplace leading to a central ornamental 4-flue chimney stack. The gables are part-covered with terracotta wall tiles. Brick arches over the windows have been bricked in, above more recent concrete lintels, cills and uprights. Building Features Windows: number, position, size, no of lights, style (sash, leaded, etc) Chimneys: number, style Ventilators: number, position Doors: number, position, inscription over (Boys Girls) style North gable to School Room contained two large casement windows, which have now been shortened (with insertion of first floor) and converted to two sets of French windows. There is a wide casement window in the west wall. All windows now have concrete lintels, cills and uprights. One single, plain stack above South end of School Room. One internally, to roof space Two doors side by side in East wall of School Room (possible for girls and boys),

4 Porches: number, position, inscription etc Bell towers/clock and other ornamentation Overall style Gothic/ecclesiastical (pointed windows and doors Classical/Georgian (triangular pediments, sash windows) Tudor/flat headed windows with drip moulding, ornate chimneys Plain and functional with no ornamentation Yes one northern-most door now blocked. Timber and brick porch under a pantile roof, over door to teacher s house, on West elevation. Small weathervane above North gable of school room (possibly original) 4 Inscriptions, coats of arms etc Building materials Roof-note decorative features (coloured and fancy tiles Walls-note decorative work (flint work, diaper bricks etc) Originally slate roof, but more recent concrete slates now present. Plain black semi-circular ridge tiles. Red brick with decorative hanging tiles to East, West and North gable ends For architectural terminology, see the glossary in Pevsner Internal (room by room) materials and features such as: Panelled walls Fire places/heating appliances Plaster/modern ceilings, open to roof Original cupboards Room divisions/folding doors Permanent art work One fireplace in the middle of the South wall of the School Room, now blocked but known to have a Portland surround. Modern plaster ceilings under inserted first floor. Building sequence One build 1878 Playground

5 Size (approx) Type (tarmac enclosure, field nature garden, climbing frames, games painted on ground Boundary original brick, iron fencing etc. Buildings out houses, mobiles, offices Approx. one eighth of an acre, on North and East side of School Room. Now a driveway and garden, bounded by native and yew hedges. The current occupier has discovered foundations for WCs on the eastern edge of the playground/garden. Include here any additional material (scans of sketch plans, old photographs, oral evidence, etc, précis of school history 5 Date of survey 4 th April 2011 Name(s) of surveyor(s) Sally Bate Sally Blaikie

Surlingham Primary School. Grid Reference TG Is the building listed? no. Walnut Hill Surlingham

Surlingham Primary School. Grid Reference TG Is the building listed? no. Walnut Hill Surlingham Name of school Surlingham Primary School Photo reference Surlingham 1-5 jpg Grid Reference TG31210648 Is the building listed? no Walnut Hill Surlingham The old (1837) school is incorporated in the village