Brook Cottages
BROOK COTTAGES, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031972
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK COTTAGES, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031972
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK COTTAGES, 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:
- BROOK COTTAGES, 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:
- St. James, South Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 31617 81092
Details
SOUTH ELMHAM ST. JAMES THE STREET TM 38 SW
4/60 Brook Cottages
- II
Former farmhouse, now divided into 2 cottages. Early C16 core, with later extensions. 2 storeys; 3-cell plan. Timber-framed and roughcast:; thatched roof. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft, and a later end stack. Various 3-light and 2-light casement windows, some old, with transomes and pintle hinges, some late C20 replacements. One 4-panel entrance door with sunk panels below an open gabled latticed porch; one C20 plank door in a late- C20 enclosed and gabled red brick porch. A limited amount of timbering exposed inside: one bay of very heavy joists, set flat and unchamfered, at the left end; in the central room, a heavy main cross-beam, with wide chamfers,and cut-off stops, supported by small solid braces. Lighter timbering in the right-hand cottage,. apparently an addition. The frame said to be covered on the upper floor, and the roof not accessible.
Listing NGR: TM3161781092
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282320
- 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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