April Cottage
April Cottage, Park Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051981
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- April Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- April Cottage, Park Road
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051981
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- April Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- April Cottage, Park 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:
- April Cottage, Park Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Letheringham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2726057624
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 October 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
TM25NE
5/10001
LETHERINGHAM
PARK ROAD
April Cottage
II
House. Mid-late C14 with later alterations. Timber-framed and plastered; clay pantiled roof with brick left ridge stack. Three-unit plan with former open hall. Single storey and attic; three-window range. Various C20 casements with glazing bars. C20 porch and boarded door to left and part-glazed door to right. Two-light gabled dormer. Lean-to on left end.
Interior: Much of frame exposed: the original studding is widely-spaced, with straight braces halved against the inner faces of the wallplates. Each wallplate has a stop-splayed scarfjoint 0.8m long. Severe subsidence has resulted in partial rebuilding or restudding, especially at upper end. Hall open truss has steeply-inclined, almost straight, tie beam braces. Evidence for extra tie beam in lower bay of hall, some 0.3m from open truss. Front cross-entry doorway had two-centre arch formed by a pair of kneebraces, of which one survives. Evidence for 6-light hall windows with fairly narrow diamond mullions. Inserted floor in hall has chamfered bridging beam and chamfered joists set flat. Upper floor at parlour end rebuilt circa C18. C17 side purlin roof, evidently reconstructed C20. Incorporated in the roof are two pairs of heavily sooted rafters, one with housings for a low collar; this suggests the original roof was half-hipped. A rare survival in this area of a C14 house.
Listing NGR: TM2726057624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361708
- 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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