The Huntsman and Hounds
THE HUNTSMAN AND HOUNDS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032051
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Huntsman and Hounds
- Statutory Address:
- THE HUNTSMAN AND HOUNDS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032051
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Huntsman and Hounds
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HUNTSMAN AND HOUNDS
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:
- THE HUNTSMAN AND HOUNDS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Spexhall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 38235 82638
Details
TM 38 SE SPEXHALL STONE STREET
2/25 The Huntsman & Hounds
1-9-53
- II*
Inn. Mid C16. 2 storeys and attics; set sideways-on to the street; basic 2- cell internal chimney plan. Timber-framed and rendered; clay pantiled roof. The internal chimney stack has attached hexagonal shafts on a square moulded base, with a recessed blank panel having brick modillions along the top. Cove cornice. 2-light and 3-light old casement windows with a transome and horizontal bars to lights. A plank door at each end of the front. Fine interior. Both ground floor rooms have main beams with multiple roll-moulding and run-off stops and one bay in the room to the west of the stack has exposed joists with a double roll-moulding and run-off stops. Each room has an unusual arched fireplace lintel with multiple roll-mouldings, on the west side with carved Tudor roses also at the springings of the arch and in the centre. The Huntsman and Hounds is already named as an inn in White's Directory of Suffolk, 1844.
Listing NGR: TM3823582638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in Whites Directory, (1844)
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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