Briar Cottage Shepherd's Close
BRIAR COTTAGE, 25, HENGRAVE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031302
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Briar Cottage Shepherd's Close
- Statutory Address:
- BRIAR COTTAGE, 25, HENGRAVE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031302
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Briar Cottage Shepherd's Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIAR COTTAGE, 25, HENGRAVE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- SHEPHERD'S CLOSE, 27, HENGRAVE ROAD
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:
- BRIAR COTTAGE, 25, HENGRAVE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERD'S CLOSE, 27, HENGRAVE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fornham All Saints
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 83513 67376
Details
TL 8467-8567 FORNHAM ALL SAINTS HENGRAVE ROAD
3/15 No.25(Briar Cottage) - No.27 (Shepherd's Close)
GV II
House, formerly divided into 3, now into 2. Probably mid C17, but using some older timbers. One-and-a-half storeys; basic 3-cell plan. Timber-framed and plastered, with thatched roof. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft. C18 3-light and 2-light casement windows with cast iron frames, pintle hinges and square-leaded panes; one eyebrow dormer with C20 diamond- leaded panes to 2-light casement window. 2 plank doors. Interior of No.25 has timbers exposed and evidence of alterations and later partitioning; reused timbers, some with external weathering; plain clasped side purlin roof with no principal rafters, but several reused smoke-blackened timbers from a medieval house. No 27 (to west of stack) has a very fine carved and moulded late C15 ceiling-beam placed in front of the chimney-stack. This has been shortened, and clearly came from an important local building.
Listing NGR: TL8351367376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284079
- 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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