Laxfield House
LAXFIELD HOUSE, DENNINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180878
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Laxfield House
- Statutory Address:
- LAXFIELD HOUSE, DENNINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180878
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Laxfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAXFIELD HOUSE, DENNINGTON 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:
- LAXFIELD HOUSE, DENNINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Laxfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2874170592
Details
TM 27 SE
4/42
LAXFIELD
DENNINGTON ROAD
Laxfield House
II
Former farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. C17 main range with a c.1600 wing set
forward at right angles to form L-shape plan. Main range considerably altered
in later C19, with 2 gabled additions of c.1900 to the rear. Timber framed,
partly plastered and partly encased in red brick, some of it colourwashed; at
the rear of the main range a brick is scratch-dated 1795. Later additions are
of red brick. Roof of main range is plaintiled, with crest tiles; the other
range is pantiled. Some scalloped bargeboards. 2 storeys with attics.
Various casement windows, mostly of C18-C19 date. One small gabled dormer.
C19 colourwashed brick gabled porch with scalloped bargeboards and a half-
glazed 4-panel door; glazing bars in door and side windows of porch have ogee
heads. C19 door and open porch in the angle of the 2 ranges. Various stacks,
all shafts rebuilt with corbelled caps. Little of the original structure is
visible inside the main range. The roof, with stepped diminished butt purlins
and a ridge piece, dates from the second half of C17. The adjoining range is
less altered and some of the framing can be seen. Original newel stair to
attic. Evidence for diamond-mullioned windows in both gables. The roof has
clasped and butt purlins with 2-way wind-bracing. In the main addition to the
rear is a fine oak overmantel dated 1631 with the initials 'S' over 'WE'; some
carved panelling of similar date now forms a dado. Both overmantel and
panelling have been brought from elsewhere.
Listing NGR: TM2874170592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280162
- 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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