274, NORWICH ROAD
274, NORWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237267
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 274, NORWICH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 274, NORWICH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237267
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 274, NORWICH ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 274, NORWICH 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:
- 274, NORWICH 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 15238 45561
Details
1. NORWICH ROAD
5379 No 274
TM 1545
6/503
II
2. House. Designed 1912 by Arnold B Mitchell for Thomas Parkington local builder; the winning design of the Daily Mail Ideal Villa competition of 1912. Red brick concrete decorative panels, plaintile roofs. Square on plan, the first and second floors contained within steeply pitcned roofs creating cruciform plan to upper floor. Two storeys with attic. Each facade comprising a two storey gable set over the ground floor. Central square brick stack with oversailing cap and tall pots. Symmetrical roadside elevation. Heavy rusticated clasping pilasters at angles,surmounted by deeply oversailing and dentilled cornices at ground floor eaves level. 2 bays of 5 canted mullioned lights, each of 2 x 4 panes originally, now with single upper hung openings to central light. To first floor a pair of 2 - light 2 x 3 paned timber casements each with large rectangular concrete apron with geometric design of 4 x 4 linked raised rectangles. Original design shows aprons decorated with swags. The two windows are framed by shallow pilaster-like brick architraves, the inner strips rising to frame a single attic window of the same design. Entrance to centre of symmetrical left hand return, with single first and second floor windows. Thought to be the only extant example of Daily Mail's competition.
Listing NGR: TM1523845561
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428463
- 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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