Sweetbriars
SWEETBRIARS, THE CAUSEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032218
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Sweetbriars
- Statutory Address:
- SWEETBRIARS, THE CAUSEWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032218
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Sweetbriars
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWEETBRIARS, 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:
- SWEETBRIARS, 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:
- TL 99910 71164
Details
TL 97 SE WALSHAM LE WILLOWS THE CAUSEWAY (WEST SIDE)
2/31 Sweetbriars 15/11/54
GV II
House. C15. Timber-framed and rendered, with panels of comb-patterned pargetting, restored C20 black glazed pantiles. 1½ storeys; 3-cell plan. The internal chimney-stack has a plain shaft of old red brick. 3 gabled dormers with fluted bargeboards and 2-light square-leaded casement windows. On the ground floor, one 4-light casement window with transome and 3 cross windows, all with square leading, some C20 restored. Enclosed and gabled porch; entrance door with 6 raised and fielded panels. A small single-storey gabled extension at the right end. Basically a medieval house with a central open hall flanked by 2 storied ends; in the C16, the chimney-stack with 2 back-to-back hearths was inserted at the lower end of the hall, blocking the cross-entry, and the 2 service rooms at the lower (north) end were made into one. The inserted ceiling in the hall has heavy chamfered main beam and joists, all with scroll stops, and the lintel over the open fireplace has triple roll-moulding on the soffit and a complex central motif in the form of a cusped circle, embellished with formalised leaves and an ornate Tau cross. The original ceilings to the 2 end rooms have plain heavy unchamfered joists, those at the upper (south), end of better quality; remains of stair traps at both ends. The open truss over the hall has a cambered tie-beam and long arched braces, originally meeting in the centre: plain pilaster strips, now mutilated, ran down the front of the main posts. Smoke-blackened rafter roof, with the remains of original plaster in one end partition. The roofs over both ends have been reconstructed with side purlins: the gable end framing indicates that they were originally hipped. At the north end, the remains of an oriel window on the upper floor.
Listing NGR: TL9991071164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281776
- 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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