White House
WHITE HOUSE, TOP ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032893
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- White House
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HOUSE, TOP ROAD
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- Date:
- 2004-09-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/12047/28
- Rights:
- © Mr Robert Whitehouse. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032893
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- White House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HOUSE, TOP 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.
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:
- WHITE HOUSE, TOP ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2372276553
Details
WINGFIELD TOP ROAD
TM 27 NW 5/163
White House
II*
House. Second half of C14 with early C17 additions. Restored and extended to rear 1972-73. Timber framed and plastered with a plaintiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. The house comprises a former open hall of raised-aisle form together with storied service and solar ends. Windows mainly mid C20 casements; some C16-C17 windows with diamond and ovolo-moulded mullions, and the upper part of an original diamond-mullioned hall window at the rear. Mid C20 door into service end. 4 gabled dormers in each roof slope. Modernised interior with most of the structure exposed. Both original cross-passage doorways survive, together with the paired doorways into the service rooms: tall have 2-centred arches. Evidence for original screens between the cross-passage and hall. The raised-aisle structure is substantially complete. The queen-posts of the open truss are of cruciform section, the heavy arched braces to the cambered tie beam meeting to form a 2-centre arch; square crown post with pronounced double jowled head (an unusual feature) and 2-way bracing to the collar purlin; arched side ties to the top plate (one concealed). The roof is largely intact, all components being sooted. The open truss has traces of the original red ochre decoration. Late C16 inserted floor with chamfered joists, those at the lower end supported on an additional bridging beam parallel with the original one which carries the open truss. Stack inserted into solar, against upper end of hall. The solar end was extended by one bay in early C17 and the attic floor supported on upper crucks.
Listing NGR: TM2372276553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280112
- 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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