Foundation House
FOUNDATION HOUSE, MILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033159
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Foundation House
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNDATION HOUSE, MILL STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14814/35
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033159
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Foundation House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUNDATION HOUSE, MILL 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.
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:
- FOUNDATION HOUSE, MILL STREET
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 07398 71769
Details
GISLINGHAM MILL STREET (SOUTH SIDE) TM 0771 6/42 Foundation House - GV II
School room and master's house, now a house. Mid C17, altered and extended early C19. Timber frame, plastered. Thatched roof, pantiles on additions. 3 bays, lobby entrance with end stack. 2 storeys and attic. Ground floor: plinth, to right a C19 part glazed and part raised 6 panelled door in a bargeboarded gabled porch, two 16-pane architraved sashes with hood moulds. First floor two 4:8 pane architraved sashes and an architraved dummy window over entrance. Internal stack at right end, rebuilt cap. Gable end attic 2- light casements. To rear a boarded door and an architraved door, mixed casements, on first floor a slightly projecting original ovolo mullioned 4- light window, 3 lattice leaded lights, 1 metal frame opening light. Attached to right end a 1 bay 1 storey C19 service addition, a 2-light casement with hood mould, further right a lower brick outbuilding. Interior: ground floor was school room, exposed studding, crossed ogee stop chamfered binding beams, lightly chamfered joists and mid-rail, 2 and 3-light ovolo mullioned window openings, early C19 stair in front of stack. First floor was master's rooms, straight arched bracing in walls, 3 and 4-light ovolo mullioned window openings with some intermediate small diamond mullions, collars and halved principals clasp purlins.
Listing NGR: TM0739871769
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279498
- 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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