Chart House and Adjoining Former Post Office and Shop
Chart House and adjoining former post office and shop, High Street, Gislingham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180651
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chart House and Adjoining Former Post Office and Shop
- Statutory Address:
- Chart House and adjoining former post office and shop, High Street, Gislingham
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08027/25
- Rights:
- © Mr Roger G. Goodchild. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180651
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chart House and Adjoining Former Post Office and Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- Chart House and adjoining former post office and shop, High Street, Gislingham
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:
- Chart House and adjoining former post office and shop, High Street, Gislingham
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 07502 71512
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/09/2015
TM 0771
6/36
GISLINGHAM,
HIGH STREET (WEST SIDE),
Chart House and adjoining former post office and shop
(Formerly listed as Post Office, Shop and adjoining House, HIGH STREET (WEST SIDE))
GV II
House with attached former post office and shop. C16 or C17 origins, extended and largely rebuilt c.1840, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered in panels, some red brick. Shallow hipped slate roofs. 3 bay house with lower bay to right and 2 bays with shop to left. All 2 storeys. Ground floor: brick base, central entrance with a 2 arched panelled architraved door, shallow 'Doric' porch with a dentilled pedimental hood, fluted columns, single glazing bar sashes with a hoodmould to left. First floor 8:8 pane sashes, all in shallow reveals. Boxed eaves. 2 axial white brick stacks on rear slope to outer bays. Right bay is set back slightly with 2-light glazing bar casements, a red brick axial stack on rear slope. Set back to left is a former post office and shop, ground floor C20 projecting shopfront, first floor recessed fixed 9 pane window, extended to left with an entrance. To rear roofs continue over 1 storey and attic lean-to's, red brick faced to right. Interior: right hand bays have some early studding with a chamfered axial binding beam and stop chamfered joists, C19 staircase with moulded and swept handrail. First floor not inspected.
Listing NGR: TM0750271512
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279492
- 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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