Art Gallery

ART GALLERY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1264500
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1977
List Entry Name:
Art Gallery
Statutory Address:
ART GALLERY, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1264500
Date first listed:
15-Dec-1977
List Entry Name:
Art Gallery
Statutory Address 1:
ART GALLERY, HIGH STREET

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ART GALLERY, HIGH 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 16077 44903

Details

HIGH STREET 1. 5379 (West Side) Art Gallery TM 1644 NW 1/454 II GV

2. Opened 1880 as Ipswich Arts Club. Architect probably Horace Cheston designer of the adjacent Museum building: Red brick and terra cotta. East facade; 2 storeys, 3 bays, centre projects with pediment and elliptical headed doorway and large 1st floor window, ground floor left and right windows in segmental headed recesses with keyblocks, 2 light windows above. Moulded brick cornice and parapet with finials over corner pilasters. Right hand return 5 bays divided by giant pilasters and with segmental headed recesses. Roof lights along ridge terminated in segmental gable.

Listing NGR: TM1607744903

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Legacy System number:
427682
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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