High House

HIGH HOUSE, HOXNE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032533
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
High House
Statutory Address:
HIGH HOUSE, HOXNE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032533
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
High House
Statutory Address 1:
HIGH HOUSE, HOXNE 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.

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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:
HIGH HOUSE, HOXNE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Denham
National Grid Reference:
TM 19442 74285

Details

DENHAM HOXNE ROAD TM 17 SE 4/34 High House II Former farmhouse. C16, in 2 phases. Later single-storey kitchen wing to rear. Timber framed and plastered under a thatched roof. 2 storeys. 2-cell, lobby entry form. Casement windows: ground floor has 2 C20 3-light windows; first floor has 2 2-light windows and a small C16 window with cavetto mullions. Gabled porch, plastered and thatched, with late C19 4-panel door. Internal stack, the shaft with a moulded base. The right gable overhangs. Fine interior with much good quality work. Ground floor room to left had complete close studding, much still visible. No middle rail. The bridging beam has 2 cavetto moulds and run-out stops; this beam is supported by solid curved braces which rise from buttress-shafts on the wall posts, both the braces and shafts with one cavetto moulding. The end cornices of the room are similarly moulded. Heavy and closely-spaced chamfered joists with run-out stops. Good 4-centre arched moulded lintol over fireplace, the mouldings turned down at the ends. Chamber above has reverse-curved braces and blocked original windows. Queen-post roof. Right hand ground floor room has an axial bridging beam with recessed soffit and a single cavetto mould; this moulding is continued onto the end cornices. Joists also cavetto-moulded, with run-out stops. Much close studding. First floor chamber has intact studding and an original gable end window with large cavetto mullions. Roof over this cell not examined.

Listing NGR: TM1944274285

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
280975
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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