The Reverend George Francis Barlow, Rector of Burgh 1814-1850, built a schoolhouse by the gate of the churchyard in which to educate the children of the parish. In 1835, when the school was built, there were nearly 60 children of school age.

It was used as both Village School and Sunday School until 1875 (after which the children of Burgh went to the newly built school in Grundisburgh). He and his wife taught at Burgh Schoolroom and Mrs Eliza Wright was also school mistress for many years. Pupils paid 1d per week at the turn of the century.

The Survey of Suffolk Parish History,
E Suffolk, Vol. 1, shows for Burgh that, in 1818, there was one Sunday School with 35 children attending and in 1833 there was one daily school with 25 attending and one Sunday School with 62 children attending; good reason for a purpose-built schoolroom.




The schoolroom continued in use as a Sunday School until 1947 when Rev. George Shallard, the last rector of Burgh alone, retired. Mrs and the Misses Shallard had conducted the Sunday School during his incumbency.

In February, 1954, the PCC resolved that the Parish Room (opposite Brickwall Farm) be sold to Denny Bros. of Woodbridge for the sum of £40, the proceeds to be used to repair and redecorate the schoolroom.

In November 1978, in connection with the sale of a picture allegedly of Mr Kerr (or Keir) of Hasketon, it was mentioned that he was associated with the building of the schoolroom.

In 1985, when there were about a dozen young children in Burgh, it was decided to reopen the Sunday School in the Schoolroom. The church members set to and cleaned and redecorated the building and the Misses Shallard attended the opening ceremony in October 1985.