West View House
WEST VIEW HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180613
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- West View House
- Statutory Address:
- WEST VIEW HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180613
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West View House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST VIEW HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- WEST VIEW HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gislingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 07532 71569
Details
GISLINGHAM HIGH STREET (EAST SIDE) TM 0771 6/32 West View House (formerly 29.7.55 listed as West View)
GV II
House, latterly 2 dwellings, a shop and a public house. c.1600 with c.1700 rebuilding of earlier bays, altered early C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched black glazed pantiled roof. 3 cell cross passage plan with hall and service bays rebuilt. 2 storeys and attic. Entrance to right into service bay has a 6 raised panelled architraved door with a 4-light fanlight, projecting cornice on shaped brackets, to right a large C19 24-pane architraved shop window, to left and above 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements. Eaves cornice. Three 2-light gabled dormers. Axial ridge stack to left between hall and parlour, service end added external stack with offsets. Parlour end entrance, shaped brackets to plates. Lean-to outshuts to rear, C18 brick to centre projecting further, an entrance to left, an early 3-light leaded casement. Interior: parlour has close studding with mid-rail, stop chamfered axial biding beam and joists. Parlour chamber 4-light diamond mullioned window opening, parlour roof has lower butt and upper clasped purlins with cranked collars, halved principals, reverse cranked windbraces, later bays have thin scantling to exposed frame, through tension bracing, ogee stop chamfered cross axial binding beams, run out chamfered joists. Formerly the Prince of Wales Public House.
Listing NGR: TM0753271569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279488
- 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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