Crown House Including Railings to Steps and Street Frontage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1949. House.

Crown House Including Railings to Steps and Street Frontage

WRENN ID
western-spindle-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Lowestoft MP: Jess Asato (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1949
Type
House
Address
Crown House Including Railings to Steps and Street Frontage, 49, High Street, Lowestoft
OS grid reference
TM 551 938
Coordinates
52.4828, 1.75646
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Crown House, built around 1760, is a three-storey brick house with a basement, topped with a black-glazed pantile roof. It features three bays and a central six-panelled door that is accessed by a flight of brick and stone steps, flanked by circular section iron railings. Above the door is a five-vaned fanlight, and the timber doorcase is adorned with a pediment supported by a pair of engaged unfluted Ionic columns. The windows on the ground and first floors are 6/6 sashes, while the second floor has 3/3 sashes, all set beneath gauged skewback arches. A dentil eaves cornice runs below the gabled roof, with internal gable-end stacks on the north and south sides. At the rear, there is a four-storey extension with two by two bays, featuring a rendered ground floor and 6/6 sashes and 3/3 sashes on the upper floors. Inside, there is a stick baluster staircase located in the south-east corner of the main block. The house is set back from the street and is separated from it by circular section iron railings that include a central gate.

Local climate

Crown House Including Railings to Steps and Street Frontage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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