Oak House Part of Doctors Surgery the Old Gift Shop
OAK HOUSE, 6, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037572
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Oak House Part of Doctors Surgery the Old Gift Shop
- Statutory Address:
- OAK HOUSE, 6, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
- 2002-01-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/07248/02
- Rights:
- © Mr Richard Egerton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037572
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Oak House Part of Doctors Surgery the Old Gift Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAK HOUSE, 6, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- PART OF DOCTORS SURGERY, 7, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE OLD GIFT SHOP, 5, MARKET PLACE
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:
- OAK HOUSE, 6, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- PART OF DOCTORS SURGERY, 7, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD GIFT SHOP, 5, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mildenhall High
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7108674678
Details
TL 7174 MILDENHALL MARKET PLACE
12/58 Nos. 5 (The Old Gift Shop),
7.5.54 6 (Oak House), and 7 (part
of Doctors' Surgery)
G.V. II
Shop, house, and part of doctors' surgery. Early C16 with C19 alterations. 2
storeys, 3 windows. Timber-framed with exposed arch-braced close-studding to
left. A small part of the original jettied upper-floor is still unaltered; a
bressumer with trailing leaf carving on joist-ends on brackets, these supported
by pilasters with crenellated capitals and carved shafts. One shaft has
trailing leaf, the other possibly bay-leaf carving. At the left hand end is a
C16 parapet gable of red brick, mainly painted, with moulded brick corbelling
at the 1st floor and eaves, and crow-stepping with a later diagonally-set
square chimney at the apex. The front wall to right rebuilt in C19 painted
brickwork. Plaintiled roof with rare survival of 6 ridge tiles crested with
animal and human figures of C16 type. Gabled C19 dormers. C19 splayed bay
shop window to the Old Gift Shop. C19 6-panelled door with oblong fanlight to
No. 6. Good un-moulded timber-framing exposed internally.
Listing NGR: TL7108674678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275867
- 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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