The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, BRAISEWORTH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032271
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, BRAISEWORTH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032271
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, BRAISEWORTH LANE
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:
- THE COTTAGE, BRAISEWORTH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Braiseworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1226471989
Details
TM 17 SW
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BRAISEWORTH
BRAISEWORTH LANE
The Cottage
II
House. C16 origins with C17 remodelling. Timber framed and plastered;
pantiled roof. 1½ storeys. 2-cell, lobby entry form. 2 windows., mid C20
tripartite casements. 2 gabled 2-light dormers, one flush rooflight between.
Central gabled porch of 1976 with plank door in side wall. Stack has mid C20
shaft. One-storey flat-roofed additions of 1976 to right gable end and rear.
Interior. 3-bay frame with narrower centre bay for stack: there appears to be
a break in the wallplates at each of the bay divisions. Good heavy full-
height studding and reverse-curved braces in both cells; evidence for re-use
of some timbers. Right cell has 2 diamond-mullioned windows, possibly
secondary, just above upper floor level, and evidence for a blocked doorway in
the rear wall near the gable end. Plain ceiling joists in ground floor rooms;
the joists in the room to right are pegged to the floorbeam, those in the
opposite room are not. Left room has intact open fireplace with original
lintol. Side purlin roof over left cell, probably C17; roof over right cell
not examined.
Listing NGR: TM1226471989
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281592
- 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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