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Latitude: 52.0579 / 52°3'28"N
Longitude: 1.1791 / 1°10'44"E
OS Eastings: 618043
OS Northings: 244720
OS Grid: TM180447
Mapcode National: GBR VP1.YS5
Mapcode Global: VHLBT.DJ7R
Plus Code: 9F43355H+5M
Entry Name: Gothic House
Listing Date: 15 November 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1237238
English Heritage Legacy ID: 428461
ID on this website: 101237238
Location: California, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4
County: Suffolk
District: Ipswich
Electoral Ward/Division: Alexandra
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Ipswich
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Ipswich St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: House
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TM 14 SE
12/404
ST JOHN'S ROAD
No 5 (Gothic House)
II
Villa. 1851-7 by Henry Ringham possibly to the design of J Phipson, architect. Timber framed in Tudor-bethan style reusing old materials and copying details from Tudor buildings in Ipswich. Two and a half storeys. Fenestration 1:1 with projecting gabled bay with entrance in corner. Tiled roof with enriched bargeboard, drooping finials and multi-form brick stack on rear gable. Flint cobble ground floor with half-timbered first floor with stucco panels: fleur-de-lis pargetting in gable. Richly carved corner-posts with lion brackets (copied from those on the Ancient House, Ipswich) carry enriched bressummer with date 1634 of jetty. Transom and mullion windows with leaded lights and oriels to front and side gables (copied from the Neptune, Fore Street Ipswich), Entrance porch with pent roof and five-centred arched opening. One-piece panelled door decorated with raised and fielded lozenges. Rear door with intricately carved panels, probably sample specimens from the 1844 House of Lords competition.
Listing NGR: TM1804344720
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