Priors Hill
PRIORS HILL, 48, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269718
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Priors Hill
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORS HILL, 48, PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269718
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Priors Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORS HILL, 48, PARK ROAD
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:
- PRIORS HILL, 48, PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldeburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 46073 56478
Details
TM 4656 ALDEBURGH PARK ROAD
(West side)
837-1/4/39
No.48 Prior's Hill
09/07/96
II
House. 1901 by H M Fletcher for Mrs Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, with additions before 1914 by Horace Field. Rendered and colourwashed brick; machine tiled roofs. Irregular T -plan. EXTERIOR: one storey and dormer attic with 2-storey eccentric block to north of entrance front. Windows are all casements. 2-storey block with weatherboarded gable heads and central. ridge stack. East elevation with a central glazed door. Lower balancing wing to south with gable facing road at right angles to north block: one 3-light casement each floor, gabled roof and roughcast stack on south roof slope. Between these blocks is a single-storey flat roofed link with entrance door flanked by one 2-light casement either side. Behind is gabled roof of the stem of the T, with one flat-topped dormer fitted with 2-light casement either side of the tapering roughcast stack on the front roof slope. Further dormer to right. Garden elevations with casements. North wing terminated in bulbous extension to west. INTERIOR: principal reception room to west has large-framed panelling and a bolection-moulded chimney-piece. Barrel-vaulted and plastered ceiling, the west spandrels of which have 2 plaster lunettes depicting a C 17 galleon in high relief and the early C20 passenger liner 'Ophir' of the Orient Line. Hall passageway with plaster groin vault. Closed-string staircase with lattice balusters. HISTOR y : the original building was designed as an extension to a house opposite (Westhill) and contained a billiard room, stables, coach house and servants' quarters. Mrs Garrett Anderson intended this for late conveGion into a house for her son and this was done before 1914. The stables and coach house were filled in, and a wing added on the east to contain three rooms and front hall.
Listing NGR: TM4607356478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460473
- 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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