The Tannery House

THE TANNERY HOUSE, TANNERY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032970
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:
The Tannery House
Statutory Address:
THE TANNERY HOUSE, TANNERY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032970
Date first listed:
09-Dec-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
22-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
The Tannery House
Statutory Address 1:
THE TANNERY HOUSE, TANNERY 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE TANNERY HOUSE, TANNERY ROAD

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Combs
National Grid Reference:
TM 04240 56239

Details

COMBS TANNERY ROAD TM 05 NW

2/100 The Tannery House (formerly listed as The Tannery and House to south 9.12.55 west)

GV II

Shop and company headquarters, built 1855 for Lankester Webb as a house; earlier range to rear, probably of C18. Gault brick with a band of limestone beneath 1st floor windows, hipped slated roof with modillioned eaves cornice; 3 internal chimneys of gault brick. Main elevation faces north; the west elevation to road is of 6 windows, the centre two set slightly forward. Small pane sashes with broad moulded limestone architraves; border panes. Entrance doorway with Roman Doric entablature in limestone with dentilled pediment and attached columns. Pair of glazed panelled doors. To right of entrance is a 2-storey flat roofed bay window. A parallel rear range is of C17 or C18: timber-framed and plastered, plaintiled roof, mid C19 small-pane sashes. An altered rear service range; partly of three storeys, partly two.

Listing NGR: TM0424056239

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
279875
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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