Description

TM 1838 WOOLVERSTONE MANNINGS LANE
(east side)
7/38
Woolverstone House
16.3.72 including walls attached
to each side (formerly
listed as Corners)
GV II*
Shown on OS map as Corners House. Convent, now school house. 1901 by Sir Edwin
Lutyens for Mrs Berners. Red brick, partly tile hung. Plain tile roofs, now
mainly replaced by unsympathetic modern tiles. Courtyard plan with single-
storey U-shaped entrance range. Single-storey chapel attached to left. Main
range 2 storeys and attic with triple gabled entrance front. Entrance range:
carriage arch with timber gate. Leaded-light casements in pegged flush timber
surrounds. Tall, steeply-pitched swept roof, tall ridge stacks. Main range,
entrance front: Jettied 1st floor on square tile piers which divide into 4
shafts with cornices. Central studded door with miniature balusters to peep-
hole and original fittings. Tile lintel. Further casements of same type as
entrance range. 1st floor has mullion and transom casements with leaded lights.
Casements with leaded lights to attic. Garden front: Single-storey projecting
outer bays under catslide roofs clasp large stacks which rise to gables.
Central entrance with splayed jambs and arch of 4 orders. Splayed buttresses.
Casement windows with leaded lights in flush pegged timber surrounds. Band of
casements between gables below eaves. Clustered stacks to rear chimneys and
further group of 5 diamond-set stacks to ridge. Steeply-pitched swept roof.
Chapel recessed at right of garden front has external stack to gable end and
similar casement windows. In angle between chapel and entrance range is an
external stack with bellcote. Garden walls to each side of house, approximately
3 metres in height with buttresses and tiled coping, round arched gateways to
each side with splayed jambs and arch of 2 orders. To left, wall ramps down
to further gateway. Interior: Many original fittings including doors, window
furniture fireplaces, tiled floors etc. Groin vaulted passage runs length of
house to entrance front. C17 style staircase opposite entrance. Known origi-
nally as St Paul's Home, the house was built for Mrs C Berners, a lay sister
of the East End Sisters of Mercy.

Illustrated in Sandon, E., Suffolk Houses, 1977, p332.

Listing NGR: TM1828838758

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534079

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