Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House
Ancient House

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A timber-framed and plastered house of two storeys and attics with a jettied upper storey. There are four fine rounded bay windows on the north front and one on the west front facing St Stephen's Lane, with leaded lights and arched transoms in the centre lights. The panels below the bays have pargetted figures representing America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Between the first storey bays are pilasters on pedestals with more decorative pargetting. The centre panel has a coat of arms. The ground storey has continuous twentieth century windows between the carved shafts which support the brackets of the projecting first storey. A timber-framed and plastered wing extends south in St Stephen's Lane.
Title

Ancient House

Date

1567

Medium

stucco

Accession number

IP1_TJ_S007

Acquisition method

commissioned by George Copping, 1567 

Work type

Building

Owner

Ipswich Borough Council 

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade I (England and Wales)

Listing date

15/12/51

Access

at all times

Inscription description

on panels under bay windows: AMERICA / AFRICA / ASIA / EUROPE; on royal coat of arms: HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE / DIEU ET MON DROIT 

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30 Buttermarket, Ipswich

IP1 1BT