Kitchen Garden Walls Immediately North East of Oaksmere (Including Vehicular Entrance)
KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS IMMEDIATELY NORTH EAST OF OAKSMERE (INCLUDING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE), RECTORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032522
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Garden Walls Immediately North East of Oaksmere (Including Vehicular Entrance)
- Statutory Address:
- KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS IMMEDIATELY NORTH EAST OF OAKSMERE (INCLUDING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE), RECTORY ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-07-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/08499/09
- Rights:
- © Mr A. C. A Seinet. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032522
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Garden Walls Immediately North East of Oaksmere (Including Vehicular Entrance)
- Statutory Address 1:
- KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS IMMEDIATELY NORTH EAST OF OAKSMERE (INCLUDING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE), RECTORY ROAD
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:
- KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS IMMEDIATELY NORTH EAST OF OAKSMERE (INCLUDING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE), RECTORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brome and Oakley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1385276496
Details
TM 17 NW
1/13
BROME
RECTORY ROAD
Kitchen garden walls immediately north east of Oaksmere (including adjoining vehicular entrance)
II
GV
Kitchen garden walls with adjoining vehicular entrance. Later C18 and mid
C19. Red brick. To the south is a 40m long section of crenellated walling
about 2.5m high, the upper half with recessed geometric panels. Tall square
piers with stepped tapering brick caps. At the west end is a 4-centre arched
stone gateway with stepped parapet, dated 1861. Plank door with studded cover
battens. An adjoining section of the wall at right angles, on the road
frontage, has a vehicular entrance; gates missing. On the west side of the
kitchen garden is plain walling of earlier date, probably C18. Against the
south end is a 15-storey block formerly used as stabling, with gabled coach
houses at each end: clay lump and timber frame construction, tarred, with
slated roof. Unaltered exterior, the stables with 2 gabled half-dormers and a
small ventilation turret with wind vane. North side of kitchen garden has C18
serpentine walls about 3m high and extending for some 40m. Mid C19 gateway
with 2-centred stone arch. A small section of the serpentine wall was blown
down in early 1986. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: TM1385276496
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280954
- 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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