Croft House Rose Cottage
CROFT HOUSE, WATER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064784
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Croft House Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CROFT HOUSE, WATER HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064784
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Croft House Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROFT HOUSE, WATER HOUSE
- Statutory Address 2:
- ROSE COTTAGE, WATER HOUSE
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:
- CROFT HOUSE, WATER HOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- ROSE COTTAGE, WATER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rickinghall Inferior
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 03754 74816
Details
RICKINGHALL INFERIOR WATER LANE (WEST SIDE) TM 07 SW 3/131 Croft House and Rose - Cottage GV II House, now 2 dwellings. Early C16, stack inserted late C16, extended mid C17, part cased mid C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered, part red brick cased. Thatched roof, originally half hipped at both ends. Originally 4 bays and probably part open with storeyed ends, 1 bay added to right or service end. 1 storey and attic. Right bay is brick cased with a 3-light casement, to left a lean-to outshut with a door, corrugated sheet roof. Stack to left of centre is behind ridge. Left end attic 3-light part opening glazing bar casement, lean-to outshut. Right gable end brick cased with an added stack and a lean-to outshut. To rear upper end plastered, brick casing with a door to original service bay, C20 2 and 3-light casements and dormers. Interior: upper end stop chamfered cross axial binding beam on jowled storey posts, otherwise frame concealed and not inspected. A blocked doorway in original cross entry position. Original lower bay appears to have had a loft without a partition to hall, traces of a 4-light diamond mullioned window in original right end wall, reverse curved arched bracing in walling, stop chamfered wall plates. Simple coupled rafter roof with faint traces of smoke blackening. C17 bay has through tension bracing.
Listing NGR: TM0375474816
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439918
- 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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