Willy Lotts Cottage
WILLY LOTTS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1033438
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Willy Lotts Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WILLY LOTTS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1033438
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Willy Lotts Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLY LOTTS COTTAGE
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:
- WILLY LOTTS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Bergholt
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 07734 33187
Details
TM 07 SE EAST BERGHOLT FLATFORD
3/11 Willy Lott's Cottage
22.2.55
GV I
Farmhouse, now accommodation for Field Studies Centre. Late C16-C17. Timber-framed, rendered. Plain tile roof. Red brick stacks and brick plinth. Single-storey and attic range of 2 bays with 2-storey, 2-bay cross wing to left and single-storey cross wing to right. To centre range a plnk door in ovolo and hollow-chamfered surround. Cross casement with leaded lights to left. Cross casements to ground and first floor of cross wing and a further similar window to left return of single storey range which has a 3-light diamond mullion window to gable end. Further cross casements and plank door to rear. Stack between centre range and 2-storey range, further stack to right gable end of centre range. Interior: centre range has red brick inglenook with chamfered bressummer with bar stop. Chamfered spine beam with lamb's tongue stop and exposed joists. Room to right has deep chamfered beam and roll-moulded spine beam and exposed joists. Further red brick inglenook with chamfered bressummer, 2-storey range has moulded beam and exposed joists. Closed- string newel stair with onion pendant. First floor shows jowled posts. Grade I listing reflects the importance of this building as part of the Flatford Mill group and its significance in the work of the artist John Constable. Leased by the National Trust to the Field Studies Council.
Listing NGR: TM0773433187
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278719
- 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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