Willow House
WILLOW HOUSE, FEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031198
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Willow House
- Statutory Address:
- WILLOW HOUSE, FEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031198
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Willow House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLOW HOUSE, FEN 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:
- WILLOW HOUSE, FEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thelnetham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 01367 78655
Details
TM 07 NW THELNETHAM FEN LANE
2/64 Willow House
II
House. C15. One-and-a-half storeys: 3-cell plan, originally with open hall. Timber-framed and rendered; thatched roof, gabled at the south end, half- hipped on the north. An internal chimney-stack with a plain rebuilt shaft. A small C20 porch addition on the east, and a single-storey lean-to with tiled roof on the north end. Various small C19 2-light casement windows with a single bar to lights, and 3 eyebrow dormers. Frame in 4 bays, the 2 central bays the former open hall, with an inserted ceiling, and chimney-stack at the upper end. The partition wall at the lower end retains the 2 service doorways, with their outer arches formed of one piece of curved timber, and the inner arch with small applied spandrels. The ceiling in the service end, which must have been very low, has been replaced at a higher level. The ground storey room at the upper (south) end has an exposed ceiling with plain, flat, unchamfered joists. Rafter roof. The original timbers in the house, which include much coppice-wood, are rather rough and irregular. The house stands sideways-on to the road on the edge of Thelnetham Fen, and appears to be the oldest surviving house in the parish.
Listing NGR: TM0136778655
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284327
- 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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