Blundeston House
BLUNDESTON HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031942
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Blundeston House
- Statutory Address:
- BLUNDESTON HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031942
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Blundeston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLUNDESTON HOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- BLUNDESTON HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blundeston
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 51098 96967
Details
BLUNDESTON CHURCH ROAD TM 59 NW 2/5 Blundeston House II House. 1785-6, by Sir John Soane for Nathaniel Rix. C19 alterations and additions. Colourwashed red brick with a paired bracketed eaves cornice. Hipped slated roof. 3 storeys. Narrow 3-bay entrance front facing south west: Greek Doric entrance porch (probably an early C19 addition), inset three-quarter glazed entrance door in 2 leaves, panelled reveals; the doorway is approached by a short flight of steps. 2 semi-circular arched ground floor windows (later casements), 3 narrow inset sash windows to first floor, a single square sash window to 2nd floor. 3-bay main front with a full-height central gabled wing set forward: originally this wing was single storey and the alteration has been carefully made. Sash windows, tripartite on the ground floor; to the left the angle between the wings is filled by a C19 conservatory. At the rear is a central recess from which projects a 2-storey kitchen wing; in the recess at 2nd floor level is a Diocletian window. The wing has been altered and there are later additions. 2 C19 rectangular stacks in white brick with grouped flues. Well stair with stick balusters, a ramped and wreathed handrail and carved tread-ends. The drawing room has a plaster cornice with a key fret ceiling border and an original marble fireplace with corner roundels. Sandon, Suffolk Houses, 1977, pp.314-5.
Listing NGR: TM5109896967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282356
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sandon, E, Suffolk Houses: A Study of Domestic Architecture, (1977), 314-5
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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