Cherub Cottage
Cherub Cottage, Elmswell Road, Wetherden, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 3LN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032632
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cherub Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Cherub Cottage, Elmswell Road, Wetherden, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 3LN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032632
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cherub Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Cherub Cottage, Elmswell Road, Wetherden, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 3LN
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:
- Cherub Cottage, Elmswell Road, Wetherden, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 3LN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetherden
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00633 62797
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 October 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TM 06 SW
4/220
WETHERDEN
ELMSWELL ROAD
Cherub Cottage
(Formerly listed as Craig Cottage)
II
House, c.1550 with major alterations of early C19. Two storeys. Probably the remaining hall and parlour cells of a formerly three-cell house. Timber-framed and plastered. Machine-made plaintiled roof with axial chimney of red brick; the lower part of C16, the upper part rebuilt C19. At either end is a short C19 extension with hipped low pitched slated roof. Early C19 small-pane sashes. Early C19 six-panelled door at lobby-entrance position; later C19 open pantiled porch with ogee cusped bargeboards and spike finial. The house has some heavy mid C16 framing with heavy and closely spaced studding. A massive ogee-moulded bridging beam is from another building. C16 clasped-purlin roof.
A large cambered lintel over the hall fireplace has been cut and the fireplace reduced.
Listing NGR: TM0063362797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280703
- 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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