The Crown

THE CROWN, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032339
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
The Crown
Statutory Address:
THE CROWN, CHURCH LANE

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Date:
2002-06-23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032339
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
The Crown
Statutory Address 1:
THE CROWN, CHURCH 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE CROWN, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Bedfield
National Grid Reference:
TM 22229 66519

Details

BEDFIELD CHURCH LANE TM 26 NW 2/16 The Crown - - II

Former farmhouse, now public house. Probably C15. Rear additions of C18 and mid C20. Timber framed and plastered, thatched roof. 3-cell form. 2 storeys. 3 windows, mid C20 2-light small-paned casements. Lobby entrance with mid C20 semi-glazed door. Internal stack with plain red brick shaft. Later stack on outside of left gable end. Interior. Probably an open hall house although the evidence provided by the frame is inconclusive. Widely- spaced studs, with paired tension braces in upper gable end and reverse-curved braces at service gable end. Hall has mid rail, side walls of end cells do not. One original diamond-mullioned window in service end and evidence for further original diamond-mullioned windows in hall, apparently to both ground and upper floors. Mutilated remains of paired 2-centre arched service doorways; service partition did not continue above the ground floor. A further 2-centre arched doorway leading into the parlour. Half of the rear cross-entry doorhead also remains in position, the other half removed a short distance to the opposite end of the bar. Over the hall chamber is a flat tie beam with short braces to the wallposts. Parlour ceiling joists have original trimming for a wide opening whose precise function is unclear (cf. a similar opening at Ebenezer Cottage, Bedfield, Item 2/29). Remainder of floor joists concealed. The coupled-rafter roof is sooted but there is no clear evidence for sooting on much of the structure below. Stack inserted into upper end of hall.

Listing NGR: TM2222966519

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
281440
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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