BUCKS HEAD INN

BUCKS HEAD INN, A 140

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1033182
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:: BUCKS HEAD INN
Statutory Address:: BUCKS HEAD INN, A 140

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1033182
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:: BUCKS HEAD INN
Statutory Address 1:: BUCKS HEAD INN, A 140

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: BUCKS HEAD INN, A 140

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Creeting St. Mary
National Grid Reference:: TM 11364 55677

Details

The following building shall be included in the list:-

SUFFOLK CREETING ST MARY MID SUFFOLK TM 15 NW A140 5/204 Bucks Head Inn II

Public House, probably originally cottage. Circa early C17, extended circa early C19. Roughcast timber frame, brick outshuts at rear. Plain tile roof with gabled ends, north range pantiles at rear, south range with ornate openwork bargeboards with finials and pendants at apex. Brick gable end and lateral stacks.

Plan: The original cottage is north range set back on right of 2-room plan, the larger left hand room heated from gable end fireplace, the right hand room probably unheated originally. The right hand stack was added in early C19 when outshut was built on front to extend the left room, outshuts were added at the rear and a large 2-storey and attic range was built forward on the left end with one principal front room heated from a rear lateral stack and what appears to be an integral outshut at the back.

2-storey and attic left range; 2-storey right hand range set back. 2:3 window east front. C19 12-pane sashes on left in projecting range with flush-panel door in right gable end with casements above. Right hand range set back, has outshut on left with panelled and glazed door and 3-light casement; 3-light casements to right. At rear the main roofs are carried down as catslides over brick outshuts, the south range to right with large C20 flat-roof dormer.

Interior: Virtually unaltered since C19. The north range left roof has chamfered axial beam with broach stop and chamfered joists, large fireplace with moulded shelf and range with wide grate, ratchet pot-hanger and 2 small cupboards; section of fielded panelling to right, the other walls matchboarded, rear wall has bench with shaped end. The smaller right hand room has wide unchamfered joists. Chambers above have exposed jowled wall-posts, wall plates and tie-beams; eaves raised and roofspace ceiled. Early C19 south extension has plastered unchamfered intersecting ceiling beams and simple early C19 pilastered chimneypiece in front room; panelled and plank doors on first floor and exposed wall-plate in attic.

Listing NGR: TM1136455677

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 279455
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.