NHER 39334 (Building record) - Snettisham County Primary School, School Road

Snettisham County Primary School, School Road.

October 1984. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"County Primary School. 1875, with additions of 1895 and 1908. Coursed, squared and dressed carstone ashlar with Bath-stone dressings, slated roofs. Single storey, H-plan. To south two returned gabled cross wings with three-light wooden tracery Gothic arch headed casements. Stone quoins, banding, kneelers and coped gables. Centre has gabled central window with three trefoil headed lights, tile-hung typanum and Gothic arch. Two flanking single light casements. Two angle porches. Central cupola with battered, slated base, octagonal belfry with spire, replaced after the damage in 1982."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 9 August 2021.

Listed as 1875, built at a cost of £2000; extended 1895 and 1908.
Coursed square carrstone with Bath stone dressings. Single storey H-plan with two gable wings to south having modern Gothic style tracery. Stone decoration to gables. Gabled centre window to main block below tile hung tympanum and Gothic arch, flanked by single light casements. Two porches in angles. Central cupola, octagonal belfry with spire replaced 1982.
(S2) says there is documentary evidence that the school was designed by Butterfield.
E. Rose (NLA), 15 April 2003.

Janury 2012. Norfolk Rural Schools Survey.
See (S3).
S. Howard (HES), 2 April 2012.