High House
HIGH HOUSE, FERRY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030776
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- High House
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH HOUSE, FERRY ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05874/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030776
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- High House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH HOUSE, FERRY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH HOUSE, FERRY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bawdsey
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 34794 39762
Details
BAWDSEY FERRY ROAD TM 33 NW (West Side) 12/19 16/3/66 High House II House. C17 and late C18. Yellow Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings and C20 pantile roof. Two and 2 1/2 storeys L-shaped plan, the rear wing being older, and having a baffle-entry 2-cell plan. Entrance Front: 5 bays symmetrically disposed. Central ground floor doorway with classical surround having Ionic pilasters to the sides with moulded capitals and bases and an open pediment with mutules. Six-panel door with 2 flush lower panels, the upper 4 being raised and fielded. Fanlight above with decorative tracery of swags. To either side are sash windows of 3 x 9 panes with thin glazing bars, painted stone sills and flat-arched heads. five similar windows to first floor level. Five further, similar windows, though of 4 x 2 panes, to the second floor. The right hand side has a central projecting gable chimney-stack with 3 flues. First and second floor windows to left of this, similar to those on the entrance front. To right of the chimney are two similar, blocked openings. Extending to right is the rear wing which is of red Flemish bond brick with C20 metal-framed casement windows being a 4-light and two 3-light ground floor windows and three 3-light windows to the first floor, and three 2-light gabled dormers to the attic. Ridge chimney to right of centre. Left hand side: blank gable end to early C19 portion. The C17 portion is obscured by C19 and C20 additions running along the whole of its side.
Interior: The rear wing has chamfered ceiling beams with ogee end stops to both floors, jowled wall posts to the upper floor and exposed studding with through braces. Massive chimney-breast to ground floor with baffle-entry at one side and staircase at other. C17 plank doors to first floor with moulded cross-battens and iron door furniture. Winder staircase to the attics.
Listing NGR: TM3479439762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 285382
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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