Grundisburgh House

GRUNDISBURGH WOODBRIDGE ROAD TM 25 SW (East side) 2/97 16.3. 66 Grundisburgh House GV II House. Mid C19. White Flemish bond brick with a slate roof Two storeys. Entrance front: 5 bays symmetrically disposed. Central bay with pilasters to either side of it at first floor level and to ground floor a central door which is 1/2-glazed and has a panelled surround with lion heads to the tops and fluting at either side with decorated fanlight above, and figurehead keystone. Before this is a flat-roofed porch with Roman Doric columns. To either side at ground floor level are 2-light windows with round heads and intersecting tracery and brick voussoirs. To the first floor are 5 windows of 3 x 4 panes and above these is a heavy decorative cornice with cogged bands, projecting headers and decorative trail in terracotta. To either side at ground floor level are projecting semi- octagonal bay windows. Left hand side: to right is the semi-octagonal bay which has round-arched 2-light windows similar to those seen on the entrance front. To left of this at ground floor level is a tripartite window and 2 sash windows of 3 x 4 panes. To the first floor, above a band of 4 bricks depth, are a further 2 windows of 3 x 4 panes and above this is a deep cornice with moulded bricks and projecting portion which has tripartite windows to the ground floor at right with a central sash of 3 x 4 panes and lateral lights of 1 x 4 and a glazed door at far left. The first floor has a tripartite window at right set in an oriel with cogged band below. Sash window of 3 x 4 panes to left of this. Right hand side: service wing at right with randomly distributed fenestration. At left is a canted bay with a hipped roof similar to that on the left hand flank.

Interior: Staircase hall with staircase of one flight having a wrought iron balustrade, moulded mahogany hand rail with wreathed curtail. Moulded surrounds to the doors with ribbed side panels and patterae to the upper corners. Heavily moulded cornice above. Neo-classical chimney pieces to the two other ground floor rooms.

Listing NGR: TM2268451093