Cliff House

CLIFF HOUSE, CLIFF QUAY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1236326
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1977
List Entry Name:
Cliff House
Statutory Address:
CLIFF HOUSE, CLIFF QUAY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1236326
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1977
List Entry Name:
Cliff House
Statutory Address 1:
CLIFF HOUSE, CLIFF QUAY

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:
CLIFF HOUSE, CLIFF QUAY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Ipswich (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TM 17089 43183

Details

CLIFF QUAY 1. 5379 Cliff House TM 14 SE 12/403 II

2. An C18 timber-framed and plastered building with early-mid C19 additions on the north end. The C18 block faces west to the quay, 2 storeys and attics. 2 window range with a lower extension of 1 window range at the south end. The ground storey has a large early C19 bay and a C20 entrance porch. The west front comprises 2 gabled wings with ornamental bargeboards and a centre part with a castellated parapet. 1:2:1 window range. The winders generally are double-hung sashes with glazing bars, The north central doorway has a large mullioned fanlight and an ornamented pediment on brackets carved with figures. Roofs tiled with a modillion eaves cornice on the brackets carved 2 flat headed dormers between the C16 and C19 blocks there is a tall C19 chimney stack.

Listing NGR: TM1708943183

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
427288
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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