41 AND 42, HIGH STREET

41 AND 42, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207026
Date first listed:
03-Oct-1977
List Entry Name:
41 AND 42, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
41 AND 42, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207026
Date first listed:
03-Oct-1977
List Entry Name:
41 AND 42, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
41 AND 42, HIGH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
41 AND 42, HIGH STREET

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 55159 93893

Details

LOWESTOFT

TM5593NW HIGH STREET 914-1/8/24 (East side) 03/10/77 Nos.41 AND 42

GV II

Pair of houses and shops, now 2 shops and 4 flats. Late C14, re-built C17, re-built again mid C19, altered C20. Brick. Asbestos slate and natural slate roofs. Double-pile plan. 3 storeys in 4 window bays. 2 late C20 ground-floor shop fronts. 4 top-hung late C20 casements to each of upper 2 floors, those to No.41 with rendered skewback arches. gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks. The rear pile is similar. Two 2-storey cross wings receded east from the rear: C20 details. INTERIOR. C20 details throughout except for the late C14 cellar under No.41. Limewashed brick. 2 compartments separated by a wide double-chamfered 4-centred brick arch. The south compartment has a flight of brick steps leading to the street, now blocked. The east and west walls are punctuated by 4-centred chamfered brick arches leading to small recessed chambers with barrel vaults. Each recess arch has an engaged circular respond with polygonal capitals. A forest of C20 brick piers supports the roof, from which the vault has been removed. The north compartment has a quadripartite brick vault with hollow-chamfered ribs on corbels. There are no wall niches or responds. In the north-east corner rises a brick winder staircase with moulded circular newel bricks. It is blocked at ceiling level.

Listing NGR: TM5515993893

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
391302
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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