The Limes
THE LIMES, 30, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032287
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES, 30, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032287
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES, 30, HIGH 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.
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 LIMES, 30, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Debenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 17384 63210
Details
DEBENHAM HIGH STREET (west side) TM 16 SE 6/102 No.30 (The Limes) 9.12.55 (formerly listed as The Limes)
GV II
House. Late C16/early C17 front range with C17 wing to rear; C18 facade. Timber framed, the facade roughcast-rendered; plaintiled roof. Rear wing is plastered and pantiled. 2 storeys, attic to front range. 7 windows, sashes with glazing bars. Lobby entry: one-storey flat-roofed porch with cornice; doorcase with bracketed cornice, old 8-panel raised and fielded door. One flat-roofed dormer. Stack has heavy shaft with 4 rebuilt flues arranged in sawtooth form. Interior. An upper room has C17 plaster ceiling: moulded cross-bands with a running foliage design, and in the centre of each division a Fleur-de-lys or Tudor rose motif. This room has an early-mid C18 fireplace with eared surround, frieze with bolection profile and cornice. Adjacent room has early C19 moulded fireplace with corner roundels. First floor room to right has coved ceiling, probably C18. Many C18 2-panel doors. Roof over front range has clasped purlins and straight plank wind-bracing. Rear wing has oak newel stair beside stack.
Listing NGR: TM1738463210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281526
- 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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