Lady Margaret House
LADY MARGARET HOUSE, MILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033164
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Margaret House
- Statutory Address:
- LADY MARGARET HOUSE, MILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033164
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Margaret House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LADY MARGARET 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:
- LADY MARGARET 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 06407 71984
Details
GISLINGHAM MILL STREET (NORTH SIDE), TM 07 SE LITTLE GREEN
2/54 Lady Margaret House - - II
House. Late C16, extended early C17, stack inserted later C17, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched machine tiled roofs. Appears as 3 cell lobby entry range but originally probably 5 storeyed bays with smoke bay to right, service and cross passage bays to left, parlour added to right with 2 bay kitchen/dairy wing to rear to form a T on plan. 2 storeys. Cross passage entrance blocked, to right a C20 lobby entrance between hall and parlour in a shallow porch; 1, 2 and 3-light leaded casements with hoodboards, some early glass, boxed eaves. Axial ridge stack inserted in smoke bay between hall and parlour. Right gable end exposed double purlins. Service wing extends behind former passage and hall, left return internal kitchen stack, entrance into dairy, mixed casements, C20 dormers, behind parlour a shallow addition with a door and hipped roof. Interior: close studding with chamfered mid-rails, hall has stop chamfered storey posts, axial binding beam and fireplace bressumer, parlour and service wing have stop chamfered cross axial binding beams. Queen post roof over original build, square-set plates/purlins between straight posts and collars, longitudinal reverse cranked braces, parlour and service wing roofs not inspected.
Listing NGR: TM0640771984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279510
- 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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