Description

ALDEBURGH

TM4656 VICTORIA ROAD 837-1/4/57 (South side) Uplands Hotel

GV II

House. Early C19, with extension c1900; mid C20 conversion to hotel and conservatory added in late C20. Whitewashed brick; roofs of black-glazed pantiles and machine tiles, hipped to original house. EXTERIOR: original front 2 storeys, 3 windows, with projecting centre bay and angle pilasters: 2-storey 3-bay extension to left. Ground floor of original house masked by full-length conservatory in front of French windows. First floor has one 6/6 unhorned sash to left of elevation and 2 casements to right, with glazing bars. Extension has half-glazed door to right and two 3-light cross casements to left. First floor lit by one 2-light casement to right and two oriel windows to left. 2-storey fronts to street, fitted with sashes and casements. INTERIOR: close string staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail. Stained glass in staircase window shows arms of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. HISTORY: from 1841-52, the house was lived in by Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), the first woman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain and Britain's first woman mayor, of Aldeburgh, in 1908. The poet George Crabbe (1754-1832) also lived here.

Listing NGR: TM4627256832

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)