161 Eldo Road
161, Eldo Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037543
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 161 Eldo Road
- Statutory Address:
- 161, Eldo Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037543
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 161 Eldo Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 161, Eldo 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:
- 161, Eldo Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- West Row
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67866 75387
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 October 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 67 NE
5/95
MILDENHALL
ELDO ROAD
No 161
II
Former farmhouse, now two dwellings. Circa early C17, in two phases. A single-cell main range which has been truncated at the left hand (north east) end, perhaps the remnant of a three-cell house, with slightly later cross-wing to right (southwest). Main range of banded brick and clunch, white washed, with a roughcast-rendered facade. Rendered gables. Cross-wing timber framed and roughcast-rendered. Roofs clad in corrugated iron. Roof over wing is hipped at rear, the slope carried down over a later addition. Two storeys, attic in main range. Various casement windows of C19 and mid-C20. Three first floor small-paned centre-pivoting windows to side wall of wing. Lobby entrance with semi-glazed four-panel door. Internal stack with square gault brick shaft, set just behind the main roof ridge.
Interior. Main range has chamfered ceiling beams on ground and first floors, the joists plastered over. Three blocked original upper window openings with splayed reveals, Two at front, one at rear. Good intact wind-braced clasped purlin roof. Cross-wing in three bays, the front two bays on the ground floor originally divided off from the rear bay. Good quality studding, partly exposed at time of survey.
In front wall, two re-used C16 mullions with roll and cavetto moulding. Chamfered ceiling beams without stops; joists set flat in two bays, those in the rear bay lost. Open fireplace with original lintel, reduced in length. Solid-tread ladder stair to attic. C19 extension at rear to form kitchen, divided off from rest of wing by a brick partition wall in the centre bay. Roof over wing. Low common rafters without a ridgepiece, clasped purlins and one of the collars has dovetail lap joints to the rafters.
Listing NGR: TL6786675387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275907
- 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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