Crown House Including Railings to Steps and Street Frontage

CROWN HOUSE INCLUDING RAILINGS TO STEPS AND STREET FRONTAGE, 49, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207028
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:
Crown House Including Railings to Steps and Street Frontage
Statutory Address:
CROWN HOUSE INCLUDING RAILINGS TO STEPS AND STREET FRONTAGE, 49, HIGH STREET
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Date:
1999-08-28
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207028
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:
Crown House Including Railings to Steps and Street Frontage
Statutory Address 1:
CROWN HOUSE INCLUDING RAILINGS TO STEPS AND STREET FRONTAGE, 49, 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:
CROWN HOUSE INCLUDING RAILINGS TO STEPS AND STREET FRONTAGE, 49, 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 55155 93841

Details

LOWESTOFT

TM5593NW HIGH STREET 914-1/8/30 (East side) 13/12/49 No.49 Crown House including railings to steps and street frontage

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House. c1760. Brick with roof of black-glazed pantiles. 3 storeys and basement in 3 bays. Central 6-panelled door reached by a flight of brick and stone steps with circular section iron railings. 5-vaned fanlight over door. Timber doorcase composed of a pediment supported on a pair of engaged unfluted Ionic columns. 6/6 sashes to the ground and first floor, 3/3 sashes second floor, all under gauged skewback arches. Dentil eaves cornice below gabled roof. Internal gable-end stacks north and south. The rear has a 4-storey 2 by 2 bay extension with a rendered ground floor. 6/6 sashes and 3/3 sashes to the upper floor. Stick baluster staircase in south-east corner of main block. The house is set back from the street and separated from it by circular section iron railings with a central gate.

Listing NGR: TM5515593841

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
391308
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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