216 AND 217, BULL ROAD
216 AND 217, BULL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033138
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 216 AND 217, BULL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 216 AND 217, BULL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033138
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 216 AND 217, BULL ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 216 AND 217, BULL 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:
- 216 AND 217, BULL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornham Parva
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 10964 72726
Details
THORNHAM PARVA BULL ROAD (SOUTH SIDE) TM 17 SW 3/96 Nos. 216 and 217 - GV II
House, now 2 dwellings. Late C15, floor inserted and extended with stack in early C17, altered C19. Timber frame, plastered. Thatched roof. Originally a Z bay open hall with a lower storeyed service/solar bay, narrower parlour and stack added to form a 3 cell lobby entry plan. Now all 2 storeys. Lobby entrance with a boarded door into parlour addition set back slightly with an axial ridge stack between hall and parlour. 1, 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements, ground floor hoodboards. An additional entrance with a boarded door into hall, cross passage entrance blocked. Right gable end pentice board, clay lump outshut. Left gable end pentice board, 3-light attic window, exposed plates and purlins, C20 lean-to outshut. To rear a boarded door in cross passage position, small 6-light window to service bay, to right 3-light glazing bar casements, parlour set back. Interior: ground floor, hall has an inserted floor, binding beam with a broad flat base with ogee to chamfered terminals, stop chamfered joists, framing largely concealed, a large 8-light diamond mullioned transomed window at hall upper end, early doorways to 2 service rooms with an early staircase to solar. First floor close studding, arched bracing in walls, chamfered arched braces and tie beam to open truss with an octagonal crown post, roll moulded bell shaped base, capital and upper bracing concealed. Parlour has 2 light diamond mulliond window opening on first floor, collars to side purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TM1096472726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279552
- 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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