Lilac Cottage

LILAC COTTAGE, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032843
Date first listed:
18-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Lilac Cottage
Statutory Address:
LILAC COTTAGE, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032843
Date first listed:
18-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Lilac Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
LILAC COTTAGE, 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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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:
LILAC COTTAGE, 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:
Laxfield
National Grid Reference:
TM 29298 72280

Details

LAXFIELD THE STREET TM 27 SE

9/69 Lilac Cottage -

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House. C15. Timber framed and plastered with a pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. Old casement windows; mid C20 entrance door. Internal stack with original plain rectangular shaft. A former open hall house with storied service end to the left. Modernised interior with some of the structure exposed. Smoke-blackened queen-post roof over hall with a row of purlins below the arcade plate; the original hipped end is still visible inside the roofspace. The roof over the service cell has been altered to form an attic but the medieval hipped end has been retained. Stack inserted at lower end of hall. Inserted ceiling with plain joists.

Listing NGR: TM2929872280

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
280189
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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