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Latitude: 52.1517 / 52°9'6"N
Longitude: 1.5957 / 1°35'44"E
OS Eastings: 646073
OS Northings: 256478
OS Grid: TM460564
Mapcode National: GBR Z06.282
Mapcode Global: VHM83.L5XV
Plus Code: 9F435H2W+M7
Entry Name: Priors Hill
Listing Date: 9 July 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1269718
English Heritage Legacy ID: 460473
ID on this website: 101269718
Location: Aldeburgh, East Suffolk, IP15
County: Suffolk
District: East Suffolk
Civil Parish: Aldeburgh
Built-Up Area: Aldeburgh
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Aldeburgh St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TM 4656 ALDEBURGH PARK ROAD
(West side)
837-1/4/39
No.48 Prior's Hill
09/07/96
II
House. 1901 by H M Fletcher for Mrs Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, with additions before 1914 by Horace Field. Rendered and colourwashed brick; machine tiled roofs. Irregular T -plan. EXTERIOR: one storey and dormer attic with 2-storey eccentric block to north of entrance front. Windows are all casements. 2-storey block with weatherboarded gable heads and central. ridge stack. East elevation with a central glazed door. Lower balancing wing to south with gable facing road at right angles to north block: one 3-light casement each floor, gabled roof and roughcast stack on south roof slope. Between these blocks is a single-storey flat roofed link with entrance door flanked by one 2-light casement either side. Behind is gabled roof of the stem of the T, with one flat-topped dormer fitted with 2-light casement either side of the tapering roughcast stack on the front roof slope. Further dormer to right. Garden elevations with casements. North wing terminated in bulbous extension to west. INTERIOR: principal reception room to west has large-framed panelling and a bolection-moulded chimney-piece. Barrel-vaulted and plastered ceiling, the west spandrels of which have 2 plaster lunettes depicting a C 17 galleon in high relief and the early C20 passenger liner 'Ophir' of the Orient Line. Hall passageway with plaster groin vault. Closed-string staircase with lattice balusters. HISTOR y : the original building was designed as an extension to a house opposite (Westhill) and contained a billiard room, stables, coach house and servants' quarters. Mrs Garrett Anderson intended this for late conveGion into a house for her son and this was done before 1914. The stables and coach house were filled in, and a wing added on the east to contain three rooms and front hall.
Listing NGR: TM4607356478
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