Ipswich And Suffolk County Club

1. 1260 NORTHGATE STREET (West Side)

Ipswich and Suffolk County Club TM 1644 NW 1/135 19.12.51.

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1. An irregular range of timber-framed and plastered buildings set back in a courtyard behind Pykenham's Gateway and well. Built on the site of the Archdeacon's Palace, it probably incorporates some of the C16-C17 structure although it now has mainly C18 and C19 features, 2 storeys. The windows are mainly double-hung sashes, some with glazing bars and some casements. On the east front at the south end there is an early C19 block with 4 window range and a moulded band between storeys. The roof is tiled, hipped. A wing extends east at the north end, with a jettied upper storey and a low parapet, The roof is tiled and the wing is hipped. A single storey C20 addition has been built on the east front. The west front originally had jettied upper storeys, the ground storey is now built out in brick. It has a fine sweep of tiled roofing with inter-related hipped and gabled wings making a picturesque cluster of buildings.

All the listed buildings in Northgate Street except Garden Wall to No 9 form a group with No 43 (Great White Horse Hotel) Tavern Street. No 2 Great Colman Street and part of Nos 2 to 12 (even). St Margaret's Plain.

Listing NGR: TM1645344751