Low Barn Cottage
LOW BARN COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032389
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Low Barn Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LOW BARN COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032389
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Low Barn Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW BARN COTTAGE
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:
- LOW BARN COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorndon
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 15501 69228
Details
THORNDON TM 16 NE 4/73 Low Barn Cottage - II House. C15 with 2-cell C16 cross-wing to right, extending to the rear. Renovated c.1976. Timber framed and plastered, pantiled roof. 1½ storeys to left, 2 storey cross-wing. The cross-wing has an end jetty on probably original brackets. Mid C20 casement windows; one gabled dormer. Stack at junction of the 2 sections, with a small mid C20 shaft. Mid C20 porch and entrance door in side wall of wing. 1½-storey section comprises half of a former open hall; the open truss, with cambered tie beam and arched braces meeting at the centre, is embedded in the gable end wall. No evidence for crown-post visible. One medieval wallplate has a stop-splayed scarf joint, the other an edge-halved scarf, presumably of later date. Inserted floor has heavily chamfered bridging beam with solid braces to the wallposts (one renewed). Joists concealed. In the cross-wing, some intact C16 studding with steep reverse-curved wall braces. Interior not fully examined.
Listing NGR: TM1550169228
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281354
- 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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