Bank House

BANK HOUSE, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032191
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Bank House
Statutory Address:
BANK HOUSE, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032191
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Bank House
Statutory Address 1:
BANK HOUSE, 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.

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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:
BANK HOUSE, THE STREET

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 00354 71270

Details

TM 07 SW WALSHAM LE WILLOWS THE STREET (SOUTH SIDE)

3/64 Bank House

GV II

House, formerly divided into 2. Later C16, with possible older core. Timber- framed and roughcast-rendered; single roman tiles. 1½ storeys; 3-cell form, not all of one date. An internal chimney-stack with a plain rebuilt red brick shaft, and another later stack on the left gable end. Plain bargeboards and spike finials to the gables. A lower brick extension beyond the right gable end. 2 gabled half-dormers, one upper window and 4 ground floor windows, all late C20 sash-type replacements. Entrance door with 4 flush panels within an open'timber porch, gabled, with plain bargeboards and spike finial. Interior: to the right of the internal stack, the end wall has very closely-spaced studding; main beam to ground floor room with large chamfer; reversed braces to the upper floor, blocked original windows, indications of a crown-post roof. To the left of the stack signs of possible roof-raising to an older core of the house: main cross-beams to the ground floor room with large chamfer and curved stops. A straight stair cut through at one end, and a partition wall of altered Jacobean square panelling, probably originally inserted to form a cross-passage. To the left of the entrance door, a later parlour replaces the former service area. Roof not examined.

Listing NGR: TM0035471270

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
281809
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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