Freston Tower House and Cottage
FRESTON TOWER HOUSE AND COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036975
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Freston Tower House and Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FRESTON TOWER HOUSE AND COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036975
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Freston Tower House and Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRESTON TOWER HOUSE AND 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:
- FRESTON TOWER HOUSE AND COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Freston
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 17801 39614
Details
TM 13 NE FRESTON FRESTON PARK 4/10 Freston Tower House and Cottage GV II House. Now subdivided. C16 range with late C16 south gable end with substantial later alterations and additions and major renovation of c1979. Timber-framed range with orange brick gable end and stack with blue diapering, partial casing of timber range and additions in red brick in Flemish bond. 1st floor of west front rendered. Plain tile roofs. 4-bay framed range with additions forming a courtyard plan. Original range: 2 storeys, 4 bays with 2 later bays added to north with cellar. West front: C20 casement windows. Raised brick gables and kneelers. To rear a later addition under a pent roof. Right gable end has massive external crow-stepped stack. Tower House interior: ground floor exposed spine beam, two chamfered cross beams and joists (somewhat restored). Stout timber frame exposed at 1st floor level: jowled posts and chamfered tie beams with run-out stops showing mortices and pegs for missing arch braces. Edge-halved scarf to hall plate of which one side has been renewed. Studded partition and end wall. Clasped purlin roof with wind braces. The house had been subdivided into 4 cottages and was derelict by the 1970's. It underwent an extensive renovation at that time, being divided into 3 units. The framed range now forms Tower House.
Listing NGR: TM1780139614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277289
- 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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