Cretingham Lodge
CRETINGHAM LODGE, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030318
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Cretingham Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- CRETINGHAM LODGE, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030318
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Cretingham Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRETINGHAM LODGE, MILL LANE
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:
- CRETINGHAM LODGE, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cretingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 22688 62231
Details
CRETINGHAM MILL LANE TM 26 SW (South side) 1/39 16/3/66 Cretingham Lodge - II
Farmhouse. C17 with substantial late C18/early C19 addition. Timber framed encased in C19 brickwork and colourwashed Flemish bond brick with a plain tile roof with lead flashings. Two storeys with attics, and single storey with attic. Entrance front: symmetrical facade of late C18/early C19 date of 3 bays. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels. Pilaster strips to the sides with an open pediment surrounding the fanlight. To right and left of this at ground floor level are Venetian windows, the central sashes of 3 x 4 panes with lateral lights of 1 x 4. The arched head to the central sash is divided from it by a fluted transon. To the first floor are lateral tripartite windows with central sashes of 3 x 4 panes and above the front door is a sash of 3 x 4 panes. To the attics are 3 dormer windows each having 3 x 2 panes and a small pedimental gable. The right hand side of the house has 3 bays near-symmetrically disposed. To either side at ground floor level are Venetian windows, similar to those on the entrance front but being C20 replacements of late C19 canted bay windows, the brick relieving arch of the right hand one being still visible at right. Central window of 3 x 4 panes. To the first floor is a central dummy window of 3 x 4 panes with a flat-arched head and to either side are tri-partite windows similar to those on the entrance front. Recessed and at right is a 2-storey outshut. Left hand flank: lean-to glasshouse at ground floor level and blocked windows to ground floor level at right, and a 3-light casement window to left. To the first floor are 4 bays, the right hand 3 being blocked and that at left being of 3 casement lights. Extending service wing at left, which is C16 refaced in C19 brick with random fenestration. Interior: Chamfered ceiling beams to the C16 wing. The late C18/early C19 wing has an open-well staircase of 3 flights with a ramped handrial, stick balusters and a wreathed curtail. Later c19 fireplaces to the rooms
Listing NGR: TM2268862231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286453
- 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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