56, HIGH STREET
56, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032291
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 56, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 56, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032291
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 56, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, 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:
- 56, 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 17442 63112
Details
DEBENHAM HIGH STREET (west side) TM 16 SE 6/110 No.56 (formerly listed 9.12.55 as Oakcroft; House adjoining Oakcroft on SE side)
GV II
House. A late C14 single-ended Wealden-type house with early-mid C16 wing to rear. The later upper end of this house is now within No.54 adjacent (qv. Item 6/109). Restored 1974-6. Timber framed and rendered, exposed studding at front. Mid rail has remains of embattled ornament. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. Jettied service cell with exposed joist-ends; traces of one carved buttress shaft. Flying wallplate has original brackets. Each floor has 2 oak mullioned windows of 1986. To extreme left a re-used C16-C17 battened plank door. A second doorway to right is now blocked. Stack has axial shaft. Interior. Former open hall is of raised-aisle form. Low tie beam with shafted soffit, formerly knee-braced to wallposts. This carries tall cross-quadrate arcade posts with massive braces to the upper tie beam, meeting at the centre. Side ties to wallplates, that to rear with 2 braces, that to front extending to flying wallplate to which the truss is symmetrical. Evidence for an upper crown-post truss: this, together with the arcade plates, is missing, the roof a much later reconstruction re-using many sooted rafters. At the upper end of the hall is a knee-braced tie beam with evidence for studding above but not below. This implies the house was built against an earlier wing. A later rebuild of this wing has a crude scarf joint with the C14 wallplate which has failed. Largely intact studding. Rear wall has cross-entry doorway with 2-centred arch and 6-light hall window with square mullions. Plain joists at service end with evidence for axial division. C16 inserted floor has chamfered joists. Stack inserted in lower bay of hall, in 2 phases; fireplace in service end has lintol formed from re-used timber showing pegholes for medieval doorhead. Rear wing, in 2 1/2 bays, has widely- spaced studs, irregular plain joists and a side purlin roof replacing one of crown-post type.
Listing NGR: TM1744263112
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281534
- 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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