Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, OLD LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033396
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, OLD LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033396
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, OLD LONDON 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:
- MANOR HOUSE, OLD LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Capel St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08603 37152
Details
TM 03 NE CAPEL ST MARY OLD LONDON ROAD 3/51 Manor House
GV II
House. C15/C16 or earlier origin with later alterations and additions. C19 restorations. Timber framed and plastered with some C19 brickwork. Red plain tiled roofs. Off centre left chimney stack with attached shafts to central hall, similar stack to right crosswing, rear external stack to left crosswing return, central forward stack and single storey bakeoven to left extension. One storey and attics central hall, 2 storey right and left gabled crosswings and left forward wing. C19 barge boards to crosswing gables, 2 gabled dormers to hall and gabled porch. 1:2:1 window range of various vertically sliding sashes to main ranges. The C15/C16 left wing was converted into a C19 dairy and has a louvred window to right of the bake oven and a horizontal sliding sash window over, loft door to left return and a vertically sliding sash window to right return. C19 gabled porch to hall, segmental archway, C20 door. Rear walls, C19 red brick faced with circular iron tie plates. Plaster and batten decoration to gables. A small rear gable is possibly the original stair turret. Much of the original frame is concealed, but heavy chamfered ceiling and bridging joists are exposed in the main rooms. There is a simple 2 armed crown post roof, supported by an arch braced cambered tie beam in the left crosswing. Halved and bridled top plate scarf to rear wall. A heavy bridging joist supported by a moulded jowled storey post in the kitchen, probably supporting the inserted hall ceiling. The left wing still retains a C19 dairy with brick floor, bake oven and meat hooks on ceiling beams. Halved and bridled top plate scarf, arched wall braces.
Listing NGR: TM0860337152
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278825
- 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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