Bellcage to North Side of Churchyard
BELLCAGE TO NORTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD, RECTORY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033451
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bellcage to North Side of Churchyard
- Statutory Address:
- BELLCAGE TO NORTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD, RECTORY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033451
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bellcage to North Side of Churchyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELLCAGE TO NORTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD, RECTORY HILL
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:
- BELLCAGE TO NORTH SIDE OF CHURCHYARD, RECTORY HILL
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 07041 34484
Details
TM 0734 EAST BERGHOLT RECTORY HILL (North Side)
6/47 Bellcage to North Side of Churchyard
22.2.55
GV II*
Bellhouse. Probably late C16. Timber-framed on red brick plinth. Plain tile roof. Rectangular on plan. Plank and muntin lower wall with open lattice work above. Door to left with long strap hinges. Overhanging steeply-pitched hipped gableted roof. Interior contains bell frame with five bells, one dated 1450. Some wall posts jowled. Posts to centre of each wall with knees support tie beams. Roof of lower level of butt purlins with clasped purlins above. Built to house the bells after the erection of the west tower of St Mary's Church (qv) was abandoned. Said to have been resited from the east side of the church in C18 at the request of Joseph Chaplin of Old Hall (qv). Paterson T F, East Bergholt in Suffolk 1923 pp 90-95 Pevsner N, Suffolk 2nd ed 1974 p 196
Listing NGR: TM0704134484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278755
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1961), 196
Patterson, T F, East Bergholt in Suffolk, (1923), 90-5
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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