Oakhill St Joseph's Preparatory School
OAKHILL, OAKHILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263952
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Oakhill St Joseph's Preparatory School
- Statutory Address:
- OAKHILL, OAKHILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263952
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Oakhill St Joseph's Preparatory School
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKHILL, OAKHILL LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- ST JOSEPH'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL, OAKHILL 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:
- OAKHILL, OAKHILL LANE
- Statutory Address:
- ST JOSEPH'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL, OAKHILL 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 15852 43329
Details
IPSWICH
TM14SE OAKHILL LANE 642-0/12/10030 (South East side) Oakhill (St Joseph's Preparatory School)
II
Mansion, now school. c1860. Preparatory school since 1937. Gault and white brick; roofs of graded Cumberland slate. Complex plan. Entrance front to north returns forward at east forming a half-courtyard. 2-3 storeys. In north side of main block is a 2-storey gabled entrance porch with a 4-centred arch leading in. Above is a canted oriel window. External stack to right rising into clustered chimney flues. To left is a passageway with 5 single-light casements, and in 2 floors above are ranges of 4 single-light casements. Gabled roof with a large square lantern rising out of a tower to terminate in a glazed viewing room lit through 5 single-light casements to each face. The whole topped by an ogee copper dome with a finial. Range to east also with grouped single-light casements and in the NW corner is a corbelled-out oriel. Mansard roof with a rectangular lantern with 4 by 5 single-light casements lighting stair-well. Garden fronts face south and west. South front has to its left the 3-storey tower rising into the viewing room. Its south face with a first-floor canted oriel, west face with clustered external stacks rising in front of upper windows and blocking them. Running south is a gabled conservatory with a transept, on a gault-brick plinth and with timber superstructure; cellar beneath. To west of tower are 2 gabled ranges at right angles to each other with a timber verandah running round south and west fronts. Various casement windows, oriels and dormers in roof. Further clustered stacks. INTERIOR: entrance hall and music room (former billiard room) with simple plaster ceilings with geometric patterns. Music room has a coved ceiling and an open timber screen at north end. Large staircase hall with open-well staircase: closed string, twisted balusters and newel posts, ramped handrail. Main doors with linenfold panelling. (Edward White: Map of Ipswich, Chief Town and Port in the County of Suffolk: Ipswich: 1867-).
Listing NGR: TM1585243329
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429005
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Title: Map of Ipswich Chief Town and Port in the County of Suffolk
Source Date: 1867
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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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