Paxes House
PAXES HOUSE, HOCKEY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032235
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Paxes House
- Statutory Address:
- PAXES HOUSE, HOCKEY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032235
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Paxes House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAXES HOUSE, HOCKEY HILL
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:
- PAXES HOUSE, HOCKEY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 12719 66216
Details
WETHERINGSETT-CUM-BROCKFORD HOCKEY HILL TM 16 NW 3/124 - Paxes House
-- II Former farmhouse, the left room latterly used as a shop. First half of C16: the left cell is the earlier but is much altered, the remainder was remodelled in early C17 when the stack was inserted. Renovated 1980's. Timber framed and rendered, thatched roof. 3 cells. 2 storeys. 3 windows, small-paned 3- light casements, the upper windows old, those on the ground floor replaced 1980's. Lobby entry: gabled porch with battened plank door. Stack has plain axial shaft of narrow brick. Interior. Main phase comprised hall and service end: partly exposed heavy studding with arched corner braces. Blocked cross- entry doorways, that at the front formerly with an arched head. Hall bridging beam has large chamfer without stops; the joists are concealed. Evidence for possible smoke hood at upper end of hall: smoke-blackened timbers, additional tie beam, now removed. Stack inserted into lower bay of hall; at same time the service end was given a new ceiling of regular plain joists set flat and turned into a parlour. Open fireplaces on ground floor, one under repair at time of survey. C19 newel stair. Left cell has much replacement studding; evidence for diamond-mullioned gable end window on ground floor. Plain ceiling joists with trimming for ladder stair. Roof over hall of irregular scantling.
Listing NGR: TM1271966216
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281709
- 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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