Church Cottage
CHURCH COTTAGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032448
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032448
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH 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:
- CHURCH 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 93628 61847
Details
TL 96 SW HESSETT THE STREET (WEST SIDE)
4/81 Church Cottage
GV II
House, late C14 and c.1500-1530. Alterations of C18, C19 and c.1970. 2 storeys (1 storey with attics until c.1976). 3-cell plan of open-hall form. Timber-framed and plastered. Concrete plaintiled roof with axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in mid C20 red brick. Small-pane casements of c.1970 and gabled plaintiled entrance porch with half-glazed panelled door. A fragmentary mid/late C14 building of 2 bays forms the nucleus of the house. The main entrance doorway survives, with an arched head of vigorous ogee form. It appears to lead into a small open hall: to its right is an open truss with a concealed archbraced tiebeam, indicating a possible croglofft on the site of the present chimney. To left is evidence for a crosswing, demolished by C19. A 2-bay open hall with service-cell was added to right c.1500-1530. The open truss has an arch-braced tiebeam, the braces rising from shafts. A second open truss is adjacent to the present chimney which replaced in late C16 an original one of plaster. The service cell to right has very heavy lodged 1st floor joists. Tension braced close-studding. The end wall was half-hipped. The diamond-mullioned front window in the hall remains in part. Crownpost roof: square posts with thin 2-way braces. In late C16 an upper floor with good chamfered joists was inserted in the hall, and a lintelled open fireplace with limestone piers which were probably removed from the demolished Abbey of St. Edmundsbury. In C18, a 1st floor was inserted into the C14 hall and that structure was re-roofed. Major alterations of c.1970 included a rear extension and new higher roof over the entire medieval section.
Listing NGR: TL9362861847
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281184
- 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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