Groton House
GROTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351465
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Groton House
- Statutory Address:
- GROTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351465
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Groton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROTON HOUSE
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:
- GROTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Groton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 96112 42580
Details
GROTON 1. 5377 Groton House TL 94 SE 41/342 16.2.76 II 2. A large early C18; red brick building probably incorporating the core of an earlier building. Parts are said to date back to the Restoration period. Considerably enlarged with a north-east wing. Roof slate, hipped with a modillion moulded eaves cornice and flat headed dormers with slated cheeks. Two storeys and attics. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars and cased frames in shallow reveals with gauged brick flat arches. The main south-west front has 1:3:1 window range and the centre part, of 3 window range, breaks forward slightly. A central doorway has a stone doorcase with pediment on console brackets. Four dormers. The north-west front has 5 window range and a central French window under a C19 verandah porch with wide eaves. Three dormers. A raised brick band extends across the fronts between the storeys. The south-east front has 2 large 2-storeyed splayed bays with 3 window range and 4 window range between the bays. Seven dormers. There are a number of tall chimney stacks with cornices. The interior has a sitting room with neo-classical decoration, massive ceiling beams in the sitting room and hall and a good pine staircase with open string and twisted balusters.
Listing NGR: TL9611242580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 276490
- 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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