Woodside
WOODSIDE, CONSTITUTION HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264602
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Woodside
- Statutory Address:
- WOODSIDE, CONSTITUTION HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264602
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Woodside
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODSIDE, CONSTITUTION HILL
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:
- WOODSIDE, CONSTITUTION HILL
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 15948 45790
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/10/2012
TM1545
642- /6/405
15/12/77
IPSWICH
CONSTITUTION HILL
Woodside
II*
Mansion. 1872. By Cattermole & Eade. For J Limmer (builder
Messrs Bennetts, carpenter Andrews of Ipswich). White brick
with slate roofs. A rectangular building with projecting wings
and bays, with rusticated quoins. Mainly of 3 storeys but with
a 2-storeyed wing on the north and a 4-storeyed tower on the
west.
The windows are 1/1 horned sashes, the ground-floor and
first-floor windows have stilted segmental arches and those on
the ground-floor of the main block are triple-arched with
central French windows. The first-floor windows are paired and
have balconies on brackets. On the east front there is a
2-storeyed entrance porch with a Corinthian portico and on the
west a tower crowned by a heavy cornice on paired brackets and
a parapet with circular openings and ball finials. A stone
frieze carved with elaborate vine ornamentation extends across
the east, south and west fronts between the ground and first
floors. Heavy modillion eaves cornice and tall rectangular
chimney stacks with recessed panels.
INTERIOR: virtually unaltered. Porch leads to staircase hall,
the walls of which have paired unfluted columns and pilasters
painted to resemble marble and rising to Corinthian capitals
supporting moulded 4-centred arches across passages leading to
kitchens (west) and dining room and other rooms (north).
Closed-string staircase with cast-iron balusters in form of
opposing scrolls decorated with waterleaf nibs; ramped
handrails to turned newel posts with heavy finials. North and
east passageways lead to various rooms through very high
quality 6-panelled doors with moulded and eared surrounds by
Andrews of Ipswich. Cloakroom with all original fittings
including pair of sinks made by Bean & Co. Marble fire
surrounds in principal rooms. Drawing room with dado panelling
and deep plaster coved cornice and ceiling border.
A good example of its period and the only one of its kind
remaining in Ipswich.
Listing NGR: TM1594845790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427434
- 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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