De Vere House

De Vere House, Water Street, Lavenham, CO10 9RW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1037131
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1958
List Entry Name:: De Vere House
Statutory Address:: De Vere House, Water Street, Lavenham, CO10 9RW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1037131
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1958
List Entry Name:: De Vere House
Statutory Address 1:: De Vere House, Water Street, Lavenham, CO10 9RW

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: De Vere House, Water Street, Lavenham, CO10 9RW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:: Lavenham
National Grid Reference:: TL9166349118

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 August 2022 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TL 9149 5 0/685

LAVENHAM WATER STREET (south side) De Vere House

(Formerly listed as No 59 (Oxford Cottage) and No 60) 23.1.58

GV I An impressive C15 timber-framed building with exposed framing and modern brick nogging on the front. Plaster infill on the east side. It is said to have been built circa 1425-1485 for the De Vere family who owned it until the end of the C17. The De Vere emblems of the star and boar are carved on the doorhead. It is said to have extended further east towards the White Horse Inn. In the 1920s it was partly dismantled and reconstructed.

The house comprises two wings with gables on the front, a smaller gable between them and a wing at the rear. Two storeys and attics. The upper storey is jettied on the front at two levels on carved bressumers, soffits and wall plates with curved brackets and some moulded capitals and remains of shafts. There are also carved bressumers in the gables. The windows have all been reconstructed in C15-C16 style and there are oriel windows on the ground storey. The doorway has fine carved doorposts, head and spandrels. There are good interior features.

Listing NGR: TL9166349118

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Legacy System number:: 276838
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.