St Margarets House
ST MARGARETS HOUSE, GORDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207020
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- St Margarets House
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARGARETS HOUSE, GORDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207020
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- St Margarets House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARGARETS HOUSE, GORDON 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:
- ST MARGARETS HOUSE, GORDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lowestoft
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 55022 93186
Details
LOWESTOFT
TM5593SW GORDON ROAD 914-1/9/8 (North East side) St Margaret's House
II
Formerly known as: St Margaret's Villa THE MARINA. Villa, now Local Government Offices. 1865 for Rev. Charles Herbert (rector of Lowestoft 1860-70). Gault brick with dark brick dressings. Slate roof. 2 storeys. Entrance front of 3 elements. In centre is the half-glazed entrance door under a round arch with a round-headed sash above, without glazing bars. Full-height canted bays right and left pierced by 2/2 sashes, those to the ground floor altered. Punched parapet obscures gabled roof. Ridge stack set to left. Left of this centrepiece is a 2-storey, single-bay wing set gable-end to front. Tripartite sash to ground floor, 2-light cross casements to upper floor, both with minimal glazing bars. Parapet with central low pediment. To the right of the centrepiece is a 3-stage look-out tower, of square section broaching into an octagonal plan at lantern stage. First 2 storeys lit through pointed lancets, lantern with alternate round and square-headed sashes. INTERIOR. Entrance hall with 2 fluted Roman Doric columns and 2 similar pilasters against the east wall only. Stick baluster staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail. East ground-floor room with coving and plaster cornice. Minimal cornices elsewhere.
Listing NGR: TM5502293186
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391286
- 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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