Sun Alliance Offices
SUN ALLIANCE OFFICES, 35, PRINCES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247685
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Alliance Offices
- Statutory Address:
- SUN ALLIANCE OFFICES, 35, PRINCES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247685
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Alliance Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUN ALLIANCE OFFICES, 35, PRINCES STREET
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:
- SUN ALLIANCE OFFICES, 35, PRINCES STREET
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 16151 44451
Details
IPWSWICH
TM1644SW PRINCES STREET 642-0/3/10027 (South East side) No.35 Sun Alliance Offices
II
Offices for Sun Fire Insurance Company, now Royal bank of Scotland. 1913. By E Thomas Johns. Red brick with Portland stone dressings. Slate roof. 4 storeys. 4-window range. Rusticated ground floor with 4 arched openings with keystones; left arch is entrance, other 3 are casement windows. First and second floor with giant order of Ionic columns to recessed centre 3 bays, with 2- and 3-light cross casements. Central first-floor window with an open pediment. Single bay either side has at first floor a 2-light cross casement under open segmental pediments leading to a projecting balcony with cast-iron railings. Above each is an occulus draped with swags. Plain frieze below modillion cornice. Attic floor with 5 single or paired (alternating) 1/1 horned sashes. Gabled roof. INTERIOR: ceiling of banking hall with bridging beams dividing it into 6 compartments with geometric inserts. Closed-string staircase with bulbous turned balusters and panelled newel posts; panelled dado. (Brown C, Haward B, Kindred R: Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914: Ipswich: 1991-: 132).
Listing NGR: TM1615144451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429007
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brown, , Kindred, , Dictionary of Architects of Suffolk Buildings 1800-1914, (1991), 132
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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