Gainsborough'S House is a Grade I listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. A C18 Museum. 9 related planning applications.
Gainsborough'S House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-thatch-pearl
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Museum
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
- GAINSBOROUGH STREET
1692 (North Side) No 46 (Gainsborough's House) TL 8741 3/75 3.3.52.
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- Thomas Gainsborough, landscape and portrait painter born here 1727. The family came to the house in 1725. Probably C17 house with extensive C18 alterations. 2 storey, and attics and cellars, timber-framed and plastered, roof tiled. There is a good front of red brick with panelled parapet, white painted modillion cornice. 5 window range, sashes with glazing bars, flush frames, and brick aprons. Central doorway has panelled reveals, flat white- painted wood case, and rectangular fanlight. There is a plaque on the front inscribed "In this house was born Thomas Gainsborough 1727". The back elevation of the house has a large rounded turret at West end, storeys. Upper windows, sash with glazing bars and ground floor with 3 Gothic French windows. The house is now a museum. NMR photos.
Nos 9 to 15 (consec) and No 46 form a group. Nos 41 to 47 (consec) and 1 and 2 Weaver's Lane form a group.
Listing NGR: TL8723141269
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