Depewell

Depewell, 55, Wangford Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032124
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1991
List Entry Name:
Depewell
Statutory Address:
Depewell, 55, Wangford Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032124
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1991
List Entry Name:
Depewell
Statutory Address 1:
Depewell, 55, Wangford Road

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Depewell, 55, Wangford Road

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Reydon
National Grid Reference:
TM 49830 77456

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 October 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

TM 47 NE
4/10001

REYDON
WANGFORD ROAD
No 55 (Depewell)

II

Cottage. Circa late C17 or early C18, possibly with earlier fabric, extended in C19. Painted flint cobbles with brick dressings and brick at south end. Steeply pitched pantile roof with gable ends. Rendered axial and gable end stacks.

Plan: three- room plan with an axial stack between the left and centre rooms, the left room was probably added in C18 or C19 and the right hand room may have originally been unheated. In C19 a two-storey outshut was built at the rear left and in C20 a circa C19 outshut was made into a garden room.

Exterior: One storey and attic. Asymmetrical three-window east front. C19 two- and three-light casements with glazing bars; C18 three-light mullion transom casement on right. Three-light casement in gabled dormer at centre. Plank door on left, C20 glazed door to right of centre. At rear C18 three-light casement with leaded panes at centre and two-storey outshut on right.

Interior: Centre room has broad unchamfered axial joists and no main beam and large fireplace with moulded and brattished timber bressummer, probably reused, and ovens now partly blocked with C20 brick fireplace. Left-hand room has unchamfered cross-beam and joists. Exposed truss in right-hand room with tie-beam and struts above. Chambers ceiled and roof-space inaccessible.

Listing NGR: TM4983077456

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
281959
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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