Lilac Cottage
LILAC COTTAGE, UPPER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033261
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lilac Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LILAC COTTAGE, UPPER STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00213/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033261
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lilac Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LILAC COTTAGE, UPPER 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:
- LILAC COTTAGE, UPPER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Baylham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 10512 51607
Details
TM 15 SW
3/48
BAYLHAM
Upper Street
Lilac Cottage
II
A small 3-cell open-hall house of late C14 or early C15, with major
alterations of C17 and later. 1 storey and attics. Timber-framed and
plastered; there are large areas of herringbone pargetting in panels, and over
the entrance is an oval with the incised date 1768 or 1788 (the numbers are
indistinct) and beneath the oval is a pair of hearts. The roof is thatched
but the right-hand half renewed with pantiles. Axial C17/C18 chimney of red
brick, repaired in mid C20. To right of entrance is a small-pane casement of
c.1800 with a hinged boarded shutter. Various other C19 and C20 casements.
Boarded entrance door of c.1800. An unusually early example of a modest
medieval house. The central open truss in the hall is depleted, but has
near-straight square-section arch-braces rising to the stump of the tie-beam.
At the right-hand end, the closed truss rose only to eaves level, allowing
smoke into the loft above the right-hand cell. The other closed truss in the
hall rose to the ridge. Both end cells have lodged 1st floor joists. The
studwork is widely spaced, with arch-bracing at corners. A large chimney was
inserted into the hall in C17, the roof was rebuilt and the upper floor built
over the hall. Intermediate studding was introduced to the external walls.
In C18/C19 a second flue was added to the stack and the adjacent closed truss
almost destroyed. A fire in mid C20 destroyed part of the roof, which was
formerly hipped at the right.
Listing NGR: TM1051251607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279241
- 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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