Mancroft Towers
MANCROFT TOWERS, PROSPECT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207042
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Mancroft Towers
- Statutory Address:
- MANCROFT TOWERS, PROSPECT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207042
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Mancroft Towers
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANCROFT TOWERS, PROSPECT 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:
- MANCROFT TOWERS, PROSPECT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Oulton Broad
- National Park:
- The Broads
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 50748 93089
Details
LOWESTOFT
TM59SW PROSPECT ROAD, Oulton Broad 914-1/3/101 (North West side) 06/05/83 Mancroft Towers (Formerly Listed as: OULTON ROAD Mancroft Towers)
II
Country House. Commissioned 1889 from George John Skipper by P.E. Back, built 1891-93. Red brick. Machine tile roofs. 2 storeys and dormer attic. Jacobean Revival style. Main front to south-west is irregularly disposed and articulated around a stepped gable to the left, a square entrance porch left of centre and a straight gable to the right. Moulded brick decoration from the Costessey brickworks, Norwich. Fenestration of brick mullioned cross-casements, the principal windows of 4-5 lights and under moulded pediments. The stepped gable has a stack and brick diapering. Gabled roof with one gabled dormer. Restrained stacks litter the skyline. The north-west front is grudgingly symmetrical. Gables to right and left with 4-5 lights to the cross-casements, all under pediments. 2-light attic windows, also with pediments. Internal angles with crenellated 2-storey towers separated by a central gable: cross-casements again, now without pediments. The rear flank (north-east return) dominated by an off-set 4-storey crenellated tower with a polygonal stair turret attached, also crenellated. INTERIOR. Dining hall has a brick segmentally-arched fireplace in the north-east wall under a coat-of arms. Above it is a continuous run of timbered coving. Ceiling with sunk quadrant-moulded bridging beams and joists. Fireplace wall with small-frame panelling. Open well staircase: closed string, splat balusters and moulded handrail, square newel posts with carved griffins (the Back family crest). Music room panelled throughout in large-framed early C18-style panelling. Fireplace with imbricated jambs and cornice. Long Gallery to first floor.
Listing NGR: TM5074893089
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391352
- 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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