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County Hall Main Entrance Block

A Grade II Listed Building in Ipswich, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0567 / 52°3'24"N

Longitude: 1.1616 / 1°9'41"E

OS Eastings: 616849

OS Northings: 244528

OS Grid: TM168445

Mapcode National: GBR VP7.0HH

Mapcode Global: VHLBT.2KZQ

Plus Code: 9F433546+MM

Entry Name: County Hall Main Entrance Block

Listing Date: 4 August 1972

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1207685

English Heritage Legacy ID: 275558

ID on this website: 101207685

Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4

County: Suffolk

District: Ipswich

Electoral Ward/Division: Alexandra

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Ipswich

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Ipswich St Helen with St James

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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Description


1.
1260 ST HELEN'S STREET
(South Side)

County Hall
Main entrance block
TM 1644 NE 2/319

II

2.
An early C19 grey gault brick building formerly the courthouse, now the
Shire Hall. The C18 gaol stood at the rear (now demolished). It was designed
by W McIntosh Brooks in 1836, in the Tudor style. Its powerful design well
characterises its original purpose. The frontage is about 150 ft long,
with a central entrance, block with twin castellated tower, castellated
side wings and 2 slightly projecting end pavilions. The central entrance block has
sham machicolations and a stone mullioned and transomed window, casements
with glazing bars, in splayed stone reveals. The windows in the towers have
stone hood moulds. A central entrance door has heavy double doors, each
of 8 panels with a heavy portcullis grille above, set in a 4 centred moulded
brick arch. The side wings are unfenestrated apart from 4 heavily barred
windows low down in the east wing. The end pavilions have 4 centred arched
windows with splayed stone reveals and hood moulds on the ground storey and
stone mullioned and transomed windows with splayed stone reveals on the 1st
storey. A moulded stone string course runs across the wings and end pavilions,
with a central carved stone coat of arms in each wing. The front rises above
a deep battered stone plinth. A shield above the entrance doors bears the
date 1837.


Listing NGR: TM1684944528

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