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Name of school Photo reference Winfarthing All saints, Primary School Winfarthing 001-011 Grid Reference TM1087 8566 Is the building listed? No School Address Mill Road, Winfarthing, Diss Norfolk, IP22 2EA

A simple T-plan school of the 1850s. Still a school. Photograph Photograph

School from road School from road

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School from rear

Document references

Building plans in NRO P/BG/132 Original Plans (it does not look as if this school was ever built.

Building plans in 1966 Plans for new cloakroom held in the school other Sale particulars in PD/78/126 – 134 (126 =Conveyance document) NRO Sale particulars in X other Log books in NRO X

Log books in school Log books held in school, also admission registers from early 1970s to present day Photographs in NRO X 3 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY Other docs in NRO 1903 School Survey ACC 209/304 page 480 Photographs in other X Other doc.sources National Society Archive NS/7/1/14043 (1854)

Directory entry White’s Directory 1883 p.796 The National School is a (1920s or nearest date) good building in Elizabethan style erected by subscription in 1854 at a cost of £280. Kelly’s Directory 1925 p566 Erected in 1854 on glebe land for 88 children NCC Ed. Com Development Plan 1947 p.453 35 children 5-14; closure 1953-4 Date of construction 1854 with funds raised by Rev. J. Bourne (for 88 children)

Architects (if known) 1966 plans for new cloakroom by G.W. Oak

Position within parish South of church, on a site known as ‘The Hemplands’ (Kelly’s 1922) Catchment area in 1940s Winfarthing only (until amalgamation with School in 1980s – renamed Winfarthing All Saints Primary School)

Plan – describe or include scan

NRO Acc 2009/304 p.480 4 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY

P/BG 132 (this looks like the school that was built) 5 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY

How many storeys One

How many rooms Two before major extensions to the rear(One larger room divided by three curtains, and one smaller room for Infants on West side.) Present use School

Name of present owner Diocese of

Condition (1 =derelict – 5 = good) 5

Is there a teacher’s house Not on same site – the timber framed house directly associated with school? across the road is known as ‘School House’ and it Give some idea of date, size and is thought by current staff to be the former teacher’s style house.

Building Features Windows: number, position, size, no of Plain- larger ones in gable lights, style (sash, leaded, etc) 6 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY Chimneys: number, style One central stack (original and plain style) One modern stack above North entrance Ventilators: number, position 2 louvered gratings in each gable end 3 gratings for under floor ventilation Doors: number, position, inscription over 2 original doors (Boys to the left and Girls to (Boys – Girls) style the right) Porches: number, position, inscription etc 2 – one porch at either end.

Bell towers/clock and other ornamentation Bell and cover present at end of North gable with a blocked opening underneath

Overall style Gothic/ecclesiastical (pointed windows and X doors Classical/Georgian (triangular pediments, X sash windows) Tudor/flat headed windows with drip Tudor/flat headed windows but not an ornate moulding, ornate chimneys chimney Plain and functional with no ornamentation X

Inscriptions, coats of arms etc X

Building materials Roof-note decorative features (coloured Slate roof and fancy tiles Walls-note decorative work (flint work, Red brick with yellow/grey Gibbs surrounds diaper bricks etc) and quoining on corners.

For architectural terminology, see the glossary in Pevsner

Internal (room by room) materials and features such as: Panelled walls X

Fire places/heating appliances 1 central open stove, now blocked with air brick

Plaster/modern ceilings, open to roof Modern suspended ceiling

Original cupboards X

Room divisions/folding doors 3 curtains on original plans but no longer present.

Permanent art work X

Building sequence 1854 Original 1 schoolroom with two separate entrances, playground and toilet facilities 1897-98 new windows for main school room and new school room – architect – Alger 7 NORFOLK RURAL SCHOOLS SURVEY 1923 Improvements to cloakrooms, painting outside, playground facilities 1948 Wash-up area built in existing cloakrooms 1961 Conversion of closets 1961 New cloakrooms 1983 New classroom and cloakrooms 2002 and 2010 New classrooms

Playground Size (approx) Original playground 58 x 25 yards

Type (tarmac enclosure, field – nature Tarmac yard around buildings, 1 acre garden, climbing frames, games painted on football field to the North (leased from ground Diocese) adventure playground to the East Boundary –original brick, iron fencing etc. No sign of original railings or walls Buildings – out houses, mobiles, ‘offices’ 1 mobile now used as music room

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

Date of survey November 2010

Name(s) of surveyor(s) Sally Bate Sally Blaikie