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Priors Hill

A Grade II Listed Building in Aldeburgh, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1517 / 52°9'6"N

Longitude: 1.5957 / 1°35'44"E

OS Eastings: 646073

OS Northings: 256478

OS Grid: TM460564

Mapcode National: GBR Z06.282

Mapcode Global: VHM83.L5XV

Plus Code: 9F435H2W+M7

Entry Name: Priors Hill

Listing Date: 9 July 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1269718

English Heritage Legacy ID: 460473

ID on this website: 101269718

Location: Aldeburgh, East Suffolk, IP15

County: Suffolk

District: East Suffolk

Civil Parish: Aldeburgh

Built-Up Area: Aldeburgh

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Aldeburgh St Peter and St Paul

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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Description


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

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