55, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1949. House, offices.
55, High Street
- WRENN ID
- young-alcove-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1949
- Type
- House, offices
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
55 High Street is a house that has been converted into offices, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of brick and features a roof made of concrete tiles. The building stands three storeys tall and is arranged in three bays. The two ground-floor windows are Venetian in style, with glazing bars and set within recessed panels under rounded gauged arches. In the center, there is a door with six fielded panels, topped by a sheet-glass fanlight that is adorned with an iron fanlight featuring seven vanes. The spandrels of the door contain foliage designs, and there is a key-block shaped like a Green Man.
Supporting the structure are a pair of fluted engaged entactic Roman Doric columns, which hold up a metope frieze and a hood decorated with guttae. Egg-and-dart motifs can be found in various places on the building. The first floor features three 3/6 sash windows under gauged skewback arches, while a strong cornice with dentils is located below the second floor, which is lit by three 3/3 sash windows, also under gauged skewback arches. The parapet partly conceals a gabled roof that has one small flat-topped dormer. The building has partly external gable-end stacks on both the north and south sides, both of which have been rebuilt.
At the rear, there are two 2-storey cross wings. Inside, the property features six-panelled doors and an open-string stick baluster staircase with scrolled tread-ends and a ramped handrail. The ground-floor north room includes a 19th-century gun-metal chimneypiece in the Jacobean style, while the cellar is plain. The roof structure consists of principals and purlins.
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