Pipers Cottage
PIPERS COTTAGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032444
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pipers Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PIPERS COTTAGE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032444
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pipers Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PIPERS COTTAGE, THE 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:
- PIPERS COTTAGE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hessett
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 93636 61647
Details
TL 96 SW HESSETT THE STREET (EAST SIDE)
4/74 Pipers Cottage -
GV II House, early or mid C16; remodelled mid C20. 2 storeys. 3-cell cross-entry plan. Timber-framed and plastered. Concrete plaintiled roof, formerly thatched: an axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt C20 in narrow buff bricks. Mid C20 casements. Mid C20 battened and boarded door at cross-entry position: gabled porch on posts. Interior: A submedieval house of unusual form, in 4 bays. Both end bays have heavy medieval floor joists, but the 1st floor over the hall has regular unchamfered 1st floor joists of mid or late C16 appearance and may have been inserted. The left-hand bay has had an archbraced open truss dividing it from the adjacent bay at 1st storey. A chimney stack with very large cambered lintel backs onto the cross-entry. Complete coupled-rafter roof, half-hipped at both ends until C17. The house was either of "croglofft" form when built, with a single-bay open hall and an open sleeping loft adjacent to left, or of more advanced form where a 2-bay chamber extends over both hall and parlour.
Listing NGR: TL9363661647
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281177
- 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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