Orchard Cottage
ORCHARD COTTAGE, WALSHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033126
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, WALSHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033126
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, WALSHAM 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:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, WALSHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gislingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 06520 70934
Details
GISLINGHAM WALSHAM ROAD (NORTH SIDE) TM 07 SE 2/65 Orchard Cottage - - II
Shown on OS Map as Back Street. House. Mid C16, stack inserted C17, reduced in size and altered C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched machine tiled roof. 4 bays: storeyed hall with upper smoke bay to left, service and parlour ends removed. 2 storeys and attic. C20 lattice leaded 2 and 3-light casements and double doors, C20 stained glass in left or smoke bay into which a C17 axial ridge stack was inserted, 3 conjoined hexagonal shafts. Left gable end has C20 stained glass in former first floor fireplace. Right gable end has 2 lattice lights on ground floor with 4 centred arched heads of original service doorways, exposed C19 purlins. To rear right a 1 storey and attic C19 backhouse with an external end stack, C20 flat roofed addition to far right. To rear left an entrance in a C20 glazed gabled porch, above a fixed 6-light metal window. Interior: frame partially altered and concealed, close studding, ground floor stop chamfered jowled storey posts with original small arched braces to 2 stop chamfered cross axial binding beams, chamfered 4 centred arched adjacent service doorways at lower end. First floor reverse curved arched braces in walling, some C17 panelling, side purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TM0652070934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279521
- 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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