Gothic House
Gothic House, 5, ST John's Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237238
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic House
- Statutory Address:
- Gothic House, 5, ST John's Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237238
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Gothic House, 5, ST John's 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:
- Gothic House, 5, ST John's Road
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 18043 44720
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 September 2021 to reformat text to current standards
TM 14 SE
12/404
ST JOHN'S ROAD
No 5 (Gothic House)
II
Villa. 1851-7 by Henry Ringham possibly to the design of J Phipson, architect. Timber framed in Tudor-bethan style reusing old materials and copying details from Tudor buildings in Ipswich. Two and a half storeys. Fenestration 1:1 with projecting gabled bay with entrance in corner. Tiled roof with enriched bargeboard, drooping finials and multi-form brick stack on rear gable. Flint cobble ground floor with half-timbered first floor with stucco panels: fleur-de-lis pargetting in gable. Richly carved corner-posts with lion brackets (copied from those on the Ancient House, Ipswich) carry enriched bressummer with date 1634 of jetty. Transom and mullion windows with leaded lights and oriels to front and side gables (copied from the Neptune, Fore Street Ipswich), Entrance porch with pent roof and five-centred arched opening. One-piece panelled door decorated with raised and fielded lozenges. Rear door with intricately carved panels, probably sample specimens from the 1844 House of Lords competition.
Listing NGR: TM1804344720
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428461
- 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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