Description

SOUTHWOLD

TM5076 HIGH STREET
588-1/7/56 (North East side)
21/04/49 No.56
Sutherland House

GV II*

House, now restaurant. Mid C15; remodelled in brick in early
C19. Timber frame encased in rendered and colourwashed brick;
black-glazed pantile roof with rebuilt central ridge stack.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 3-window front. Ground floor with two
6-panelled doors within plain doorcases with consoles beneath
flat hoods: door to right is half-glazed. Two 6/6 unhorned
sashes to left of ground floor, in flush frames, and two
similar sashes immediately above. Right bay of elevation with
one unhorned tripartite sash to each floor with glazing bars
arranged: 2/2, 6/6, 2/2.
INTERIOR: not inspected but known to contain the following.
Early C16 mullioned windows recovered during restoration of
1960s. One ground and one first-floor room with plaster
cornice of grape and vine motifs. Plaster ceilings have
variety of motifs: fleur-de-lys, sea-horses, roses and Greek
honeysuckle ornament. These ceilings probably of 1672,
inserted for stay of Duke of York (later James II) who was
Admiral of the Fleet at time of battle of Sole Bay.
(Bottomley A & Hutchinson J: Discovering Southwold: Southwold:
1988-: 25; Jenkins AB: A Hundred Years of Southwold in
Photographs: Southwold: 1983-: 18; Previous listing
description: London: 1971-: 21).

Listing NGR: TM5066776289

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547026

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)