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Thornham County Primary School

A Grade II Listed Building in Thornham, Norfolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9596 / 52°57'34"N

Longitude: 0.5842 / 0°35'3"E

OS Eastings: 573672

OS Northings: 343367

OS Grid: TF736433

Mapcode National: GBR P2S.JHQ

Mapcode Global: WHKP8.YWB0

Plus Code: 9F42XH5M+RM

Entry Name: Thornham County Primary School

Listing Date: 20 September 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1077906

English Heritage Legacy ID: 221291

ID on this website: 101077906

Location: Thornham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, PE36

County: Norfolk

District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk

Civil Parish: Thornham

Built-Up Area: Thornham

Traditional County: Norfolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk

Church of England Parish: Thornham All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Norwich

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Description


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THORNHAM
HIGH STREET (north)
Thornham County Primary School

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II

Village school. 1858. Random coursed knapped flint with stone dressings, fish-scale tiled roofs. East and west gable wings with cross wing perhaps originally the school house; single and one and half storeys, H plan. High Victorian Gothic. East and west gabled single storey school-room blocks with large ecclesiastical style Geometric-Decorated style 3-light tracery windows with hood moulds. Stone plinth and sill level string courses, stone quoins, kneelers and coped parapets. Trefoil ventilation holes in gables, west gable with 2 quatrefoil ventilation holes, east gable with 2 purlin iron heads in same position. Returns with trefoil headed Gothic arched lights within straight headed frames. Projecting single storey wings with boarded doors. West range returns in flint with stone dressings, east range rendered. Cross wing in centre with off-centre towered porch at junction with west range. Tower with set-off angle buttress. 4-centred arch to door boarded with wrought iron foliage tracery, quatrefoil window above, moulded brick eaves cornice. Rectangular Mansarded fish scale tiled roof has hipped termination with open wooden bellcote with leaded broach spirelet. Cross wing has ground floor 3-light oak mullioned Gothic headed window casement, similar attic stonecoped gabled half dormer both in stone frames. Ground level stone string course, sill level string course of east and west ranges continued across centre forming drip moulds to tower door and ground floor cross wing window. Crested ridge tiles. 3 sets of gault brick stacks with stone copings, octagonal shafts: 3 on west range, 3 on centre, originally 3 now 2 surviving on east range. East and west ranges with hexagonal section boarded open roofs with bosses and ribs to interior.


Listing NGR: TF7367243367

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