Kingsmead

14, 15 AND 16, GLEBE CLOSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209929
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:
Kingsmead
Statutory Address:
14, 15 AND 16, GLEBE CLOSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209929
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1949
Date of most recent amendment:
21-Jun-1993
List Entry Name:
Kingsmead
Statutory Address 1:
14, 15 AND 16, GLEBE CLOSE
Statutory Address 2:
KINGSMEAD, 122, YARMOUTH ROAD

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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:
14, 15 AND 16, GLEBE CLOSE
Statutory Address:
KINGSMEAD, 122, YARMOUTH 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 54125 95136

Details

LOWESTOFT

TM59NW YARMOUTH ROAD 914-1/1/86 (North East side) 13/12/49 No.122 Kingsmead

II

Formerly known as: No.112 YARMOUTH ROAD. Includes: Nos.14, 15 AND 16 GLEBE CLOSE. House, the rear part of which has been converted to 3 flats designated Nos. 14, 15 and 16 Glebe Close. Late C18. Red brick. Roofs of black-glazed pantiles. Front range faces Yarmouth Road with a full-height cross wing extending to the rear. Main south facade of 2 storeys and dormer attic in 3 bays. Central C20 six-panelled door under a 5-vaned fanlight set within a timber arched doorcase below an open dentil pediment. One 8/8 sash right and left with flush boxes and gauged skewback arches. 3 similar first-floor sashes, without the gauged arches, and the central one with 6/6 glazing bars. Hipped roof with 3 flat-topped dormers fitted with late C20 top-hung casements. Against the west gable is a late C20 conservatory. Against the rear wall, to the west (right) of the cross wing is a stepped wall stack now partly obscured by a mid C20 outshut with a C20 door and casement. The cross wing is of 2 storeys and dormer attic, the upper flats reached by an external C20 steel staircase against the north gable wall. Doors are late C20, fenestration is mixed C20 casements and late C18 sashes. Dentil eaves cornice below a gabled roof with 2 sloping dormers on the west side. Internal gable-end stack to north. The east side of the cross wing has a C19 hipped outshut, re-built C20, on which crouches a glazed flat-topped late C20 window range. INTERIOR. The cross wing contains the flats and has nothing of historic interest. The south (main) block not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM5412595136

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
391370
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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