Cherub Cottage

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:: Cherub Cottage, Elmswell Road, Wetherden, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 3LN

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Official list entry

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

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 280703
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.