GODOPHIN HOUSE AND THE SCOTCH TEA ROOMS INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS
GODOPHIN HOUSE INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, 2, THE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037641
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- GODOPHIN HOUSE AND THE SCOTCH TEA ROOMS INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS
- Statutory Address:
- GODOPHIN HOUSE INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, 2, THE AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037641
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- GODOPHIN HOUSE AND THE SCOTCH TEA ROOMS INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS
- Statutory Address 1:
- GODOPHIN HOUSE INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, 2, THE AVENUE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE SCOTCH TEA ROOMS, THE AVENUE
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:
- GODOPHIN HOUSE INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, 2, THE AVENUE
- Statutory Address:
- THE SCOTCH TEA ROOMS, THE AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newmarket
- National Grid Reference:
- TL6418563210
Details
TL 6463
7/73
10.3.70
NEWMARKET (including EXNING)
THE AVENUE
No 2 (Godophin House) & The Scotch Tea Rooms incluiding area railings.
(Formerly listed as No.2 (Godolphin House)
GV
II
Offices, (formerly house) and tea rooms, (formerly kitchen wing),
early C18. 2 storeys and attics on basement. 3 windows, with
return elevation of 4 windows to the High Street. Red brick with
parapets and cornice of brick and moulded limestone, the parapet
raised at the centre and pierced by attic windows. Plaintiled
roof with gabled dormers having sash windows, chimneys of red
brick. Sash windows with flat arches of gauged brick and small-
pane sashes with thick glazing bars. C20 entrance doorway in the
C18 manner: pair of 2-panelled doors with oblong fanlight,
pilasters with flat canopy of console brackets. A C18
tradesmens doorway to left with segmental arch of gauged brick
and door with 6 fielded panels. Some rooms have good complete
early C18 decoration on ground and 1st floors; chimney pieces,
full height panelling, panelled doors and moulded ceiling
cornices C18 wrought iron railings along the High Street frontage
return to meet the corner of Godolphin House. The Scotch Tea
Rooms probably the early C18 kitchen wing. 1 storey; rendered
brick walls, hipped plaintiled roofs with axial chimneys of red
brick. A pair of small 1-pane bow windows believed to have been
added c.1935 with 6-panel reused entrance door. At the rear of
the tearoom 3 early C18 mullioned and transomed windows with iron
bars.
Listing NGR: TL6418563210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275633
- 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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