Waveney House

Waveney House is an early 17th-century building located at 56 Earsham Street. It is two stories tall with an attic and features four dormers, a parapet with a coping, and a stone gable. The house is constructed of Suffolk yellow brick and has a slate roof. In 1827, the roof was thatched and the building underwent extensive restoration and alterations by J B Scott, who noted that it was being prepared for his occupation at that time. John Scott purchased the house in 1811. The riverfront has seven windows on the first floor, with a blank panel in the center above the porch. The windows are sash style with glazing bars and flat arches. There is a three-panel wooden door and a porch supported by Greek Doric fluted columns. The chimney stack features a cluster of octagonal flues made of thin red brick. Inside, there is a massive stop-chamfered beam, hewn attic roof trusses, and very large chimneys on the first floor. Waveney House, along with Nos 54 and 56, the adjoining wing, the walls, and the ancillary building, as well as the bridge over the River Waveney, form a group.