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Name of school Photo reference Stoke Holy Cross Board School SHX 001-007 jpg

Grid Reference TG 2339 0229 Is the school listed? no School Address Road Stoke Holy Cross NORWICH Norfolk NR14 8QJ

Built 1850, enlarged 1877, but still no more than a single-block two-room school in 1906. Flat roofed block added c.1950; closed 1982. 2 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY

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Description Photograph

Stoke Holy Cross school dated circa 1914 /1918 Children are standing in the front playground facing the road. First three windows from the left are the original classroom built in 1877 and the window on the right is the 1887 extension.

Next 4 photographs taken on the last day that the building was used as a school this was on July 1982 Taken more or less in same position as the photograph above. First two windows on left are of the original 1877 building. The next window is the 1887 extension. The wooden building is the 1950s building. The chimney is from the fireplace in the 1887 extension and this was placed in the corner of the room.

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Showing the 1950s wooden extension and the end window in the 1887 extension. The marshes can be seen in the background.

Showing the rear of the building. The base of the two chimneys can be seen in the top of the picture. The glass door leads into the 1887 extension. However when extension built there was no door. This was added later. The window to the right in picture was the boy’s cloakroom. Beyond the green fencing was the boys toilets.

5 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY Rear view of sch ool. Brick wall to the right foreground was the boys toilets. The brick building to the left was the link into the 1950s classroom and was the cloakroom. The site was on a slope as indicated by the steps. Linking the cloak room and the original boys cloakroom was a veranda.

Document references

Building plans in NRO X

Building plans in X other Sale particulars in x NRO Sale particulars in x other Log books in NRO

Log books in school Complete record still kept in Stoke Holy Cross County Primary School at Long Lane, Stoke Holy Cross Board School minute Original minute books held in NRO – reference as book C/ED3/150 listed as Photographs in NRO x Other docs in NRO Acc 2009/304 p.342 – Survey of schools when CC took over from School Boards on 30/09/1903 covering staff, plan and furniture p.342 Photographs in other None found to date

Directory entry Whites 1864 – – Loddon Hundred (1920s or nearest date) Mrs Harriett Dashwood. In 1787 Rev John Freeman left two old houses in Norwich for the schooling of poor children of Caistor but they have long since fallen down, the site is let for £3pa. (It is known that there was a school situated on 6 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY Caistor Lane– the bottom end. Census possibly shows this) Whites 1864 – Stoke Holy Cross – Henstead Hundred A school with mistress house attached built 1850 by Henry Birkbeck who still supports it attended by 70 children. Louisa Cossey – mistress. (This building is situated on Poringland Road, SHC and today in 2010 is a pair of semi-detached thatched roof houses. When the board school was built at Poringland this school closes. Mrs Cossey continued to live in the house) White’s 1883 p.701 Board School erected 1876, cost £700 for 50 children for Stoke Holy Cross, Caistor and Markshall 1925 Kellys p.484 Enlarged 1877 in connection with Central School at , for 86 children. (Incorrect entry for the extension. Research using the original log books shows this to be 1886/7) NCC Ed. Com. Development Plan 1947 p.317 35 children 9-14 School to be closed 1956/7 Date of construction Erected in 1877 – (one class room) enlarged 1886/7 first used Feb 1877 a second classroom. Small catering room and a 3 rd classroom added in 1950s Architects (if known) Mr Pearce – shown in original board minutes

Position within parish On the edge of the village nearest Caistor St Edmund – on the edge of the marsh Catchments area in 1940s Lower Stoke Holy Cross, few from upper Stoke Holy Cross, lower Caistor St Edmund, Markshall, Dunston Plan – describe or include scan

Ordnance Survey 2nd edition 1907 – Map No LXXVII 7 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY

NRO Acc 2009/304 p.342

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9 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY How many storeys One

How many rooms Initially in 1877 there was one room, another added in 1887, another added in 1950s Present use The school building was sold in 1982/3. The junior school in Long Lane was opened in November 1968 leaving original Board School for use as an Infant school, which closed in August 1982 bringing the school all on one site. The school was then converted into a private residence. Name of present owner Not known

Condition (1 =derelict – 5 = good) 5 - Good condition. The building was converted by putting a floor in to give an upstairs. A porch was added on the front. Windows put in the roof. The 1950s small catering room remains. The 1950s classroom knocked down and a double garage built on the footprint. The outside toilets and the back of the premises knocked down and replaced by an extension containing a kitchen and a glass conservatory. Is there a teacher’s house No there never was a school house attached to the associated with school? school. Research has shown that the school Give some idea of date, size and teacher/s were originally housed in premises in the style village. Two locations have been identified

Building Features Windows: number, position, size, no of See photos lights, style (sash, leaded, etc) Chimneys: number, style Two

Ventilators: number, position Originally there is reference in Log books to ventilators, but these were removed at some stage Doors: number, position, inscription over In rear, separate Girls and Boys inscriptions (Boys – Girls) style to cloakrooms Porches: number, position, inscription etc Not until the 1950s classroom was added, small porch at rear of building. Bell towers/clock and other ornamentation There is reference in the log books to bell tower when this was removed

Overall style Gothic/ecclesiastical (pointed windows and None doors Classical/Georgian (triangular pediments, None sash windows) Tudor/flat headed windows with drip None moulding, ornate chimneys Plain and functional with no ornamentation Yes see photos 10 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY

Inscriptions, coats of arms etc No

Building materials Roof-note decorative features (coloured Black glazed clay pantiles and fancy tiles Walls-note decorative work (flint work, Soft local red brick generally with 1950s diaper bricks etc) classroom was finished in wooden shiplap

For architectural terminology, see the glossary in Pevsner

Internal (room by room) materials and features such as: Panelled walls Half height panelling

Fire places/heating appliances 2 fire places with hearths – one in centre back wall of original room and one in corner of next classroom Plaster/modern ceilings, open to roof Plaster walls with no ceiling, open to the roof structure Original cupboards No

Room divisions/folding doors No however mention of screens in log books

Permanent art work None

Building sequence

Initially in 1877 there was one room, another added in 1887, another added in 1950s and a catering room – 1950s wooden class room possibly was built by Foulgers of

Playground Boundary Metal railings to road and different pattern Marked by railings, stone wall or other around playground including gates leading into Size (approx) 0.287 acres

Type (tarmac enclosure, field – nature Finally concrete with climbing frame and garden, climbing frames, games painted on painted games on ground ground Buildings – out houses, mobiles, ‘offices’ “Offices” at rear of main classroom together with wood and coal store

Include here any additional material (scans of sketch plans, old photographs, oral evidence, etc, précis of school history

11 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY Plan of classroom from the return dated 30/09/1903

Date of survey November 2009

Name(s) of surveyor(s) Ann-Margaret Barber and Peter Barber