The Chestnuts
THE CHESTNUTS, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030300
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Chestnuts
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHESTNUTS, THE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030300
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Chestnuts
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHESTNUTS, THE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHESTNUTS, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Monewden
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 24667 58830
Details
MONEWDEN THE STREET TM 25 NW (North side) 4/100 16/3/66 The Chestnuts - II
Farmhouse. Dated 1619. Timber framed with colourwashed render and a slate roof, originally thatched. Two storeys with attic. Baffle-entry with screens passage, 3-cell plan. Entrance front: ground floor 6-panel C19 doorway at right of centre below the stack. To right and left of this are 4-light early C19 casements and a similar window at far left. To the first floor are three 3-light casements. To the ridge at right of centre is a rectangular stack with saw-toothed flues above with moulded bases and caps. Right hand gable end: close studded with a projecting ground floor bay window with 6-centred lights and 2 at either side. The first floor has a 4-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window and a similar window to the attic with jowled corner posts. Rear: mainly obscured at ground floor level by a C19 brick lean-to outshut with pantile roof. To the first floor at left is a 4-light window with ovolo-moulded surround and to right of centre is a similar window. To the far right is a further lean-to with a catslide gambrel roof. Interior: screens passage with panelled screeen and jowled wall posts one of which bears the initals SME below the date 1619. Ovolo-moulded ceiling beams to the ground floor rooms with lamb's tongue end-stops and signs of the service room division to the present kitchen close studding and reversed bracing to the first floor, and 2 blocked windows of 3 lights with ovolo-moulded mullions. Wind bracing to the attics.
Listing NGR: TM2466758830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286513
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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