Waveney House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1949. House. 1 related planning application.
Waveney House
- WRENN ID
- dusk-slate-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1949
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
- 924 EARSHAM STREET (North Side) -------------- No 56 (Waveney House) TW 3389 1/48 905.49.
II GV
- Early C17, 2 storey and attic, 4 dormers, parapet with cope, stone gable. Slates. Suffolk yellow brick. In 1827 roof thatched and extensively restored and altered by J B Scott, author of "An Englishman at Home and Abroad", who records that at this date the building was being prepared for his occupation. The house was bought by John Scott in 1811. 7 windows at 1st floor on river front and centre blank panel over porch, sash, with glazing bars and flat arches. 3-panel door in wood case. Porch with Greek Done fluted columns. Stack with cluster of octagonal flues of thin red brick. Interior: massive stop-chamfered beam, hewn attic roof trusses, very massive 1st floor chimneys.
Nos 54, 56, wing adjoining, walls and ancillary building together with the bridge over the river waveney form a group.
Listing NGR: TM3336689803
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