55, High Street

LOWESTOFT

TM5593NW HIGH STREET 914-1/8/32 (East side) 13/12/49 No.55

GV II

House, now offices. Late C18. Brick. Roof of concrete tiles. 3 storeys in 3 bays, the 2 ground-floor Venetian windows with glazing bars set within recessed panels under rounded gauged arches. In the centre, also within a recessed panel, is a door with 6 fielded panels below a sheet-glass fanlight with an iron 7-vaned fanlight in front of the glass. The spandrels contain foliage and there is a key-block in the form of a Green Man. A pair of fluted engaged entactic Roman Doric columns support a metope frieze and a hood with guttae. Egg-and-dart decoration here and there. Three 3/6 first-floor sashes under gauged skewback arches. Strong cornice with dentils below second floor, which is lit through three 3/3 sashes, also with gauged skewback arches. Parapet partly conceals gabled roof with one small flat-topped dormer. Partly external gable-end stacks north and south, both re-built. The rear has two 2-storey cross wings. INTERIOR. 6-panelled doors. Open-string stick baluster staircase with scrolled tread-ends and a ramped handrail. The ground-floor north room has a C19 gun-metal chimneypiece in the Jacobean style. Plain cellar. Roof of principals and purlins.

Listing NGR: TM5514093791