Listed Building: BLUNDESTON HOUSE (282356)

BLUNDESTON CHURCH ROAD TM 59 NW 2/5 Blundeston House II House. 1785-6, by Sir John Soane for Nathaniel Rix. C19 alterations and additions. Colourwashed red brick with a paired bracketed eaves cornice. Hipped slated roof. 3 storeys. Narrow 3-bay entrance front facing south west: Greek Doric entrance porch (probably an early C19 addition), inset three-quarter glazed entrance door in 2 leaves, panelled reveals; the doorway is approached by a short flight of steps. 2 semi-circular arched ground floor windows (later casements), 3 narrow inset sash windows to first floor, a single square sash window to 2nd floor. 3-bay main front with a full-height central gabled wing set forward: originally this wing was single storey and the alteration has been carefully made. Sash windows, tripartite on the ground floor; to the left the angle between the wings is filled by a C19 conservatory. At the rear is a central recess from which projects a 2-storey kitchen wing; in the recess at 2nd floor level is a Diocletian window. The wing has been altered and there are later additions. 2 C19 rectangular stacks in white brick with grouped flues. Well stair with stick balusters, a ramped and wreathed handrail and carved tread-ends. The drawing room has a plaster cornice with a key fret ceiling border and an original marble fireplace with corner roundels. Sandon, Suffolk Houses, 1977, pp.314-5. Listing NGR: TM5109896967