Listing Text

SOUTHWOLD

TM5076 SOUTH GREEN
588-1/7/127 (North side)
21/04/49 Centre Cliff: Nos.1 AND 2
(Formerly Listed as:
SOUTH GREEN
(North side)
Centre Cliff)

GV II

Also known as: Nos.1 AND 2 Dolphin House (No.1) SOUTH GREEN
Centre Cliff.
Main block of town house; now two dwellings. 1829; subdivided
and rebuilt at rear in 1949 following war damage. For Rev.
Thomas Sheriffe. Stuccoed brick; slate roof with panelled
stacks at each end and at rear.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 5-bay front, centre bay breaking forward
slightly: each bay inset between pilaster strips. Central
projecting single-storey porch on two Ionic columns with plain
entablature, now glazed. Above, French doors on first floor
open to porch balcony with cast-iron railings. Ground floor
has French windows, those to left of porch without glazing
bars. Remaining four first-floor windows are 6/6 unhorned
sashes. Dentilled eaves cornice beneath balustraded parapet
broken by pedestal piers supporting free-standing shell
finials.
INTERIOR: No.1 Centre Cliff only inspected. Closed-string
staircase with turned balusters inserted 1978. Panelled
hardwood doors. First-floor landing has plaster frieze copied
from the Elgin marbles.
Previous list description (1971) refers to staircase with
wrought-iron balustrade and ceiling with enriched spandrels,
lit from octagonal lantern. Marble pilasters with Corinthian
caps. One room with elaborate panelled and enriched ceiling.

Listing NGR: TM5090776033