Number 12 (Robins Nest) , Number 14 and Number 16
NUMBER 12 (ROBINS NEST), NUMBER 14 AND NUMBER 16, THE CAUSEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032176
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Number 12 (Robins Nest) , Number 14 and Number 16
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 12 (ROBINS NEST), NUMBER 14 AND NUMBER 16, THE CAUSEWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032176
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Number 12 (Robins Nest) , Number 14 and Number 16
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 12 (ROBINS NEST), NUMBER 14 AND NUMBER 16, THE CAUSEWAY
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:
- NUMBER 12 (ROBINS NEST), NUMBER 14 AND NUMBER 16, THE CAUSEWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walsham-le-Willows
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00026 70872
Details
TM 07 SW
3/34
WALSHAM LE WILLOWS
THE CAUSEWAY (WEST SIDE)
No.12 (Robins Nest), No.14, No.16
II
A row of 3 estate cottages. Late C19. In rustic style, the most ornate
example of a number of estate cottages built by John Martineau Esq., of The
Lawn. Red brick to ground floor, exposed timber-framing with render to the
upper floor; plaintiles. 2 storeys; complex form. Internal and end chimney-
stacks with rounded shafts, moulded bases, and corbelled caps. Both end
cottages have large jettied cross-wings, each jetty with shaped joist ends and
ornate supporting brackets; carved bargeboards and ornate spike finials to-the
gables; a single storey open timber porch in the angle of the wing and main
range, and an oriel to the upper floor with 5-light casement window. Similar
casements, with a single bar to lights, to all the other windows in the row.
The middle cottage, double fronted, has a large 2-storey gabled porch
projecting from its centre front, with open timbering on the ground floor and
a room with a 5-light slightly coved window above; bargeboards and finial to
match the cross-wings. All 3 cottages have diagonal bracing in the apex of
the gables and Biblical texts carved on bressummers and tie-beams.
Listing NGR: TM0002670872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281779
- 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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