Centre Cliff
CENTRE CLIFF, 1 AND 2, SOUTH GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384441
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Centre Cliff
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRE CLIFF, 1 AND 2, SOUTH GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384441
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Mar-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Centre Cliff
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRE CLIFF, 1 AND 2, SOUTH GREEN
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:
- CENTRE CLIFF, 1 AND 2, SOUTH GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwold
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 50907 76033
Details
SOUTHWOLD
TM5076 SOUTH GREEN
588-1/7/127 (North side)
21/04/49 Centre Cliff: Nos.1 AND 2
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTH GREEN
(North side)
Centre Cliff)
GV II
Also known as: Nos.1 AND 2 Dolphin House (No.1) SOUTH GREEN
Centre Cliff.
Main block of town house; now two dwellings. 1829; subdivided
and rebuilt at rear in 1949 following war damage. For Rev.
Thomas Sheriffe. Stuccoed brick; slate roof with panelled
stacks at each end and at rear.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 5-bay front, centre bay breaking forward
slightly: each bay inset between pilaster strips. Central
projecting single-storey porch on two Ionic columns with plain
entablature, now glazed. Above, French doors on first floor
open to porch balcony with cast-iron railings. Ground floor
has French windows, those to left of porch without glazing
bars. Remaining four first-floor windows are 6/6 unhorned
sashes. Dentilled eaves cornice beneath balustraded parapet
broken by pedestal piers supporting free-standing shell
finials.
INTERIOR: No.1 Centre Cliff only inspected. Closed-string
staircase with turned balusters inserted 1978. Panelled
hardwood doors. First-floor landing has plaster frieze copied
from the Elgin marbles.
Previous list description (1971) refers to staircase with
wrought-iron balustrade and ceiling with enriched spandrels,
lit from octagonal lantern. Marble pilasters with Corinthian
caps. One room with elaborate panelled and enriched ceiling.
Listing NGR: TM5090776033
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484875
- 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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