DOVER HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL ADJOINING ON WEST

DOVER HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL ADJOINING ON WEST, STOW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1031458
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: DOVER HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL ADJOINING ON WEST
Statutory Address:: DOVER HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL ADJOINING ON WEST, STOW ROAD

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Date:: 2004-10-25
Reference:: IOE01/13409/03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1031458
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: DOVER HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL ADJOINING ON WEST
Statutory Address 1:: DOVER HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL ADJOINING ON WEST, STOW ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DOVER HOUSE AND GARDEN WALL ADJOINING ON WEST, STOW ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Ixworth
National Grid Reference:: TL 93157 70252

Details

TL 9270-9370 IXWORTH STOW ROAD (SOUTH SIDE)

5/60 Dover House and garden wall adjoining on west

GV II*

Farmhouse. C15. 2 storeys: 4 bays: Wealden type, with 2 storied ends jettied on street frontage only. Timber framed, plastered, and pargetted on the front with the remains of comb patterning. At each end of the upper storey are panels with a simple 'Tree of Life' design. C.1960 plastering in panels to sides and rear. Half-hipped, plaintiled roof. Internal chimney-stack with C20 shafts of traditional design. 4 cross windows to ground floor, the 2 centre windows with triangular pediments: 4 2-light casements to upper storey: all windows with c.1970 square leading replacing old lights in same style. 6-panel fielded door. Fine interior, with medieval and C16 features. Crown-post roof. Carved and moulded inserted ceiling in hall. Hall and parlour fireplaces with lintels carved with running leaf designs: in hall, a cinquefoil brick arcade above. Illustrated in Basil Oliver's 'Old Houses and Village Buildings in East Anglia' plate XLVIII. For a detailed account, see also Procs. Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, Vol. XXIX, Pt.3, 1964. A high boundary wall along the road frontage adjoins the west end of Dover House, linking it with Cyder House. C19. Random flint, with red brick piers and capping. 4 bays. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: TL9315770252

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Legacy System number:: 283637
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Oliver, B, Old Houses and Village Buildings in East Anglia
'Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History' in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, (1964)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.