Pakenham's Gate House, Ipswich

The practice has been responsible for overseeing the continual program  of repairs, we have also carried out the Quinquenial Inspections for the Ipswich Building Preservation Trust (IBPT) who lease the building from the Ipswich and Suffolk Club.  The building was restored in 1983.

(Extract below from listing description)

Listed Grade I; A C15 gateway attributed to William Pykenham, who became Archdeacon of Suffolk in 1471 and then the Dean and Rector of Hadleigh in 1472. He also built the fine brick gatehouse called the Deanery Tower at Hadleigh.

The gateway has a 4-centred arch with a 2-light 4 centred arched window with latticed leaded light, moulded brick mullions, hood moulds and chamfered reveals.

The gateway has a crow stepped gable. At the rear a timber-framed and plastered wings extends to the west on the 1st storey, with exposed timber-framing and a 3 light mullioned window with arched lattice leaded lights. The gable is jettied on a moulded bressumer and the apex also projects slightly on a moulded bressumer. A small gabled wing extends south with a jettied upper storey and a 2 light casement window. A high brick wall extends south for about 70 ft. At the north end there is a small entrance with a 4-centred arch with shafts and capitals, and at the south end there is a large 4-centred arched carriageway. The north part of the wall now has a tiled capping and the south part has a sloping brick capping with brick dentils.

The Ancient House, Ipswich

The Ancient House, also known as Sparrows House, after the family which was responsible for its magnificent early C17 pargetting. It was built originally in tile C15 and re-adapted or rebuilt in 1567 by George Copping, who sold it a few years later to the Sparrow family, in whose possession it remained for over 200 years. It is a very fine building, well preserved, with much of its original detail intact.
 
 Working with Ipswich Borough Council we have developed the specifications for re-decorating the exterior, with a traditional lime wash, including the oak frame.