Numbers 5 and 6 (Harwell House) With Attached Outbuilding

NUMBERS 5 AND 6 (HARWELL HOUSE) WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, 5 AND 6, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032645
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Numbers 5 and 6 (Harwell House) With Attached Outbuilding
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 5 AND 6 (HARWELL HOUSE) WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, 5 AND 6, MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032645
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Numbers 5 and 6 (Harwell House) With Attached Outbuilding
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 5 AND 6 (HARWELL HOUSE) WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, 5 AND 6, MARKET PLACE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 5 AND 6 (HARWELL HOUSE) WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, 5 AND 6, MARKET PLACE

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Botesdale
National Grid Reference:
TM 04737 75799

Details

BOTESDALE MARKET PLACE (SOUTH EAST TM 0475 SIDE) 6/14 Nos. 5 and 6 (Harwell - House) with attached Outbuilding GV II House, latterly 3 dwellings and now 2. Early C18, altered and extended mid C19. Red brick, Flemish bond with vitrified headers. Plastered timber frame to rear. Black glazed pantiled roof with plaintiles to rear. 3 cell cross entry plan with service end to left. 2 storeys. Front largely rebuilt in C19. To left of centre in cross entry position a recessed architraved 6 panelled door, a half glazed door to far right, a blocked door to left. 4 ground floor and 3 first floor recessed single glazing bar sashes. All openings have cambered heads. Offset plinth, rendered plat band, boxed eaves. Stepped kneelers to coped gable end parapets. Internal stacks to rear, axial to right of centre and cross axial to left. Left gable end has 2 plat bands, blocked openings. To rear a gable behind service bay, to centre a 4 panelled door and a C19 slate roofed lean-to addition for stairs, to right a 2-light box dormer. Interior: diagonally set corner fireplaces, indented ogee stop chamfered binding beams. Attached to rear left is a late C16 or early C17 outbuilding, formerly stabling to the Greyhound Public House (q.v.). Timber frame, rendered and weatherboarded, steeply pitched corrugated sheet roof, 2 bays, originally longer; a door towards rear and an upper 18 pane casement, close studding with mid-rail, clasped purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TM0473775799

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Legacy System number:
280735
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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