The Margaret Catchpole Public House
THE MARGARET CATCHPOLE PUBLIC HOUSE, CLIFF LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1243454
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Margaret Catchpole Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MARGARET CATCHPOLE PUBLIC HOUSE, CLIFF LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1243454
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Margaret Catchpole Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MARGARET CATCHPOLE PUBLIC HOUSE, CLIFF LANE
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:
- THE MARGARET CATCHPOLE PUBLIC HOUSE, CLIFF LANE
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 17621 43280
Details
TM 14 SE IPSWICH CLIFF LANE
(North side)
642/12/10060
The Margaret Catchpole
Public House
13.12.1995
II*
Public house. 1936. By Harold Ridley Cooper of Ipswich, for the Cobbold Brewery. Red-brown brick with hipped plain tile roof and prominent brick ridge and front wall lateral stacks, most with diagonally set clustered stacks with corbelled caps.
PLAN. Double-depth form, with 2 public rooms separated by an entrance/offsales area to the front, and a fan-shaped lounge at rear. Vernacular Revival style.
EXTERIOR. FRONT ELEVATION. Single storey and attic, 4-window range, with single and 3-light wooden mullion and transom windows glazed with leaded lights. 2, 3-light hipped dormers to the left oft the front wall stack. Further right, wide principal doorway with moulded brock surround and double doors. These give access to a central lobby, with 3 doorways below glazed overlights. At either end of the central range are single-storey projections with hipped roofs which have further doorways.
REAR ELEVATION: To the rear the building is canted to overlook bowling greens. Wide multi-light bow windows of mullion and transom form are set either side of the verandah, with its oversailing roof supported on circular brick piers. Further doorways and above, hipped dormers to each roof facet.
INTERIOR. Public bar to left has modified linenfold and plain fielded panelling, bolection-moulded fireplace with mirror overmantel, and herringbone wood-block flooring. Streamlined bar counter with contemporary shelving to back bar. Bar to right has a quadrant-shaped bar counter, fireplace and panelling with similar detail to that of the other rooms,
A well-preserved and almost unaltered public house of 1936 which retains its original plan form and the majority of its contemporary fittings. Its well-detailed architecture and interior ensemble make it outstanding among surviving inter-war public houses.
Listing NGR: TM1762143280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447310
- 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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