Tyndale House

FELIXSTOWE HIGH ROAD EAST TM 33 NW (south side) 2/16 Tyndale House

II

House now part of Felixstowe College. Dated 1900. 1984 extension to rear. Red brick, red sandstone dressings, applied timber frame decoration, plain tile roofs. 2 storeys and attic. 5 bays, the outer and central bays are gabled and break forward. Outer bays have applied timber framing to gables. Central bay upper storey and gable, similarly treated. Mullion and transom windows with leaded panes,some coloured glass, sandstone surrounds with moulded heads. Central bay: 2 ground floor windows have rubbed and moulded brick aprons, 1st floor oriel. Arched outer doorway of rubbed and moulded brick and sandstone. Moulded brick bands. Decorative plaster frieze. Deep gable eaves on carved wooden brackets. Tall grouped octagonal brick stacks. GARDEN FRONT has timber Jacobean style verandah between 2 forward gabled bays. EAST WALL tile hung gable. WEST turreted bay. INTERIOR: Panelled hall, elongated pedimented door- cases, panelled doors. Open string stair of squared carved newels with obelisk finials, turned balusters. Sitting room: highly decorative panelling and plasterwork in panels between fluted pilasters below carved frieze; plaster cornice with vine leaf and egg and dart mouldings. Fireplace and overmantel, stone mantel C16, with decorative brick and tile back to fireplace; overmantel mostly C16 is heavily carved and ornamented and supported on fluted and gad- rooned pilasters.

Listing NGR: TM3117035293