Godophin House The Scotch Tea Rooms Including Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1970. Offices, tea rooms. 4 related planning applications.
Godophin House The Scotch Tea Rooms Including Area Railings
- WRENN ID
- waiting-passage-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1970
- Type
- Offices, tea rooms
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Godophin House, also known as The Scotch Tea Rooms, is a building that dates back to the early 18th century. Originally a house, it now serves as offices and tea rooms, with a former kitchen wing. The structure is two storeys high with attics above a basement and features three windows on the main elevation, with a return elevation of four windows facing the High Street. It is constructed of red brick and has brick parapets and a cornice made of moulded limestone. The parapet is raised in the center and includes attic windows. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has gabled dormers that contain sash windows, along with red brick chimneys.
The sash windows have flat arches made of gauged brick and are fitted with small panes and thick glazing bars. There is a 20th-century entrance doorway designed in an 18th-century style, featuring a pair of two-panelled doors with an oblong fanlight, pilasters, and a flat canopy supported by console brackets. To the left, there is an 18th-century tradesmen's doorway with a segmental arch of gauged brick and a door with six fielded panels. Inside, some rooms retain impressive early 18th-century decorations on the ground and first floors, including chimney pieces, full-height panelling, panelled doors, and moulded ceiling cornices.
The Scotch Tea Rooms, likely the original kitchen wing from the early 18th century, is a single storey with rendered brick walls and hipped plain tiled roofs, featuring axial chimneys of red brick. It includes a pair of small one-pane bow windows that are believed to have been added around 1935, along with a reused six-panel entrance door. At the rear of the tea rooms, there are three early 18th-century mullioned and transomed windows with iron bars. Additionally, there are 18th-century wrought iron railings along the High Street frontage that return to meet the corner of Godophin House.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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