Amara Tam and Brome Villa

AMARA TAM, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032526
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Amara Tam and Brome Villa
Statutory Address:
AMARA TAM, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032526
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Amara Tam and Brome Villa
Statutory Address 1:
AMARA TAM, THE STREET
Statutory Address 2:
BROME VILLA, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
AMARA TAM, THE STREET
Statutory Address:
BROME VILLA, 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:
Brome and Oakley
National Grid Reference:
TM1522576698

Details

TM 17 NE
6/19

BROME
THE STREET
Amara Tam & Brome Villa

II
GV

Former farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. In 2 sections: C16 parlour cell to left
(Amara Tam), modernised mid C20; lower right hand section (Brome Villa)
probably earlier but altered. Timber framed and plastered, the roofs mainly
pantiled; Amara Tam has double Roman tiles to the front slope. 2 storeys,
part with attic. Amara Tam has mid C20 casement windows and boarded door. In
the gable end are 2 original windows with cavetto mullions. Gable stack at
junction with adjacent range. Good closely-spaced studding and chamfered-
joist ceilings exposed inside. Roof has one row of clasped purlins. Brome
Villa has C19 casement windows and a boarded door with 2 glazed panels; small
dripmoulds to ground floor openings. C18 external stack against gable end.
Timbers largely concealed internally.

Listing NGR: TM1522576698

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
280960
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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