Crespigny House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

ALDEBURGH

TM4656 HARTINGTON ROAD 837-1/4/10 (South side) 27/02/50 Crespigny House

II

Mansion, later a residential home, now 4 houses. 1775, altered 1914 and extended to the east. Converted to 4 houses 1992. C18 house comprises west part entered from north. Rendered and stuccoed brick; graded slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and dormer attics. North front has 2-storey porch in which is a double-leaf 3-panelled door under a grid overlight. One single-light casement left and a 4/4 sash to right set in a quadrant wall. Overhanging first floor to porch lit through one 6/6 sash. Recessed to left of porch is a C20 doorway. To right of porch is a full-height semicircular bow with two 6/6 unhorned sashes on each floor and plain parapet. Hipped roof with 4 flat-topped dormers, the outer ones with tripartite sashes, the inner with squat 3/3 sashes. The bow window is repeated at south end of west front, terminating the 3-window range which has 6/6 unhorned sashes and blind central window on first floor. South front consists of 2-storey main range with dormer attics and 2-storey block projecting forward at left end. Main range has canted bay window at right end of ground floor and two 6/6 sashes on first floor. Projecting block is of 4 bays flanked by half bays at each end: two centre bays are pedimented. Both floors are articulated by pilasters supporting moulded cornices, on ground floor Roman Doric, on first floor Ionic. Ground floor has French windows: first floor, 6/6 unhorned sashes. 2-storey extensions to east of 1914 has 6/6 sash windows. INTERIOR: largely modernized and altered to support various uses.

Listing NGR: TM4638756313

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0068 IOE Records taken by Keith Atkins; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Keith Atkins. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project