Woolverstone House Including Walls Attached to Each Side
WOOLVERSTONE HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS ATTACHED TO EACH SIDE, MANNINGS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204044
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Woolverstone House Including Walls Attached to Each Side
- Statutory Address:
- WOOLVERSTONE HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS ATTACHED TO EACH SIDE, MANNINGS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204044
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Woolverstone House Including Walls Attached to Each Side
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOLVERSTONE HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS ATTACHED TO EACH SIDE, MANNINGS LANE
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:
- WOOLVERSTONE HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS ATTACHED TO EACH SIDE, MANNINGS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolverstone
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 18288 38758
Details
TM 1838 WOOLVERSTONE MANNINGS LANE (east side) 7/38 Woolverstone House 16.3.72 including walls attached to each side (formerly listed as Corners) GV II* Shown on OS map as Corners House. Convent, now school house. 1901 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Mrs Berners. Red brick, partly tile hung. Plain tile roofs, now mainly replaced by unsympathetic modern tiles. Courtyard plan with single- storey U-shaped entrance range. Single-storey chapel attached to left. Main range 2 storeys and attic with triple gabled entrance front. Entrance range: carriage arch with timber gate. Leaded-light casements in pegged flush timber surrounds. Tall, steeply-pitched swept roof, tall ridge stacks. Main range, entrance front: Jettied 1st floor on square tile piers which divide into 4 shafts with cornices. Central studded door with miniature balusters to peep- hole and original fittings. Tile lintel. Further casements of same type as entrance range. 1st floor has mullion and transom casements with leaded lights. Casements with leaded lights to attic. Garden front: Single-storey projecting outer bays under catslide roofs clasp large stacks which rise to gables. Central entrance with splayed jambs and arch of 4 orders. Splayed buttresses. Casement windows with leaded lights in flush pegged timber surrounds. Band of casements between gables below eaves. Clustered stacks to rear chimneys and further group of 5 diamond-set stacks to ridge. Steeply-pitched swept roof. Chapel recessed at right of garden front has external stack to gable end and similar casement windows. In angle between chapel and entrance range is an external stack with bellcote. Garden walls to each side of house, approximately 3 metres in height with buttresses and tiled coping, round arched gateways to each side with splayed jambs and arch of 2 orders. To left, wall ramps down to further gateway. Interior: Many original fittings including doors, window furniture fireplaces, tiled floors etc. Groin vaulted passage runs length of house to entrance front. C17 style staircase opposite entrance. Known origi- nally as St Paul's Home, the house was built for Mrs C Berners, a lay sister of the East End Sisters of Mercy.
Illustrated in Sandon, E., Suffolk Houses, 1977, p332.
Listing NGR: TM1828838758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277317
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sandon, E, Suffolk Houses: A Study of Domestic Architecture, (1977), 332
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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