The Firs
THE FIRS, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180984
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Firs
- Statutory Address:
- THE FIRS, CHURCH WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180984
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Firs
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FIRS, CHURCH WALK
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:
- THE FIRS, CHURCH WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rattlesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 97820 59002
Details
RATTLESDEN CHURCH WALK TL 95 NE 3/84 The Firs - GV II House, late C14 or early C15 with rearward extension of c.1600. A 2-bay service crosswing, 2 storeys high. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof. C19 small-pane casements. A C17/C18 boarded entrance door in east side. Quite complete framing exposed internally; evidence for a jettied upper floor facing north, but the entire gable was rebuilt in primary-braced studding in C17/C18. Widely-spaced original studding. A blocked 2-centred arched service room doorway and blocked diamond mullioned windows. An open truss with cambered tie-beam, and square-sectioned slightly curved archbraces. Roof inaccessible. A single-bay extension to rear has arch studbraced walling and an original attic; probably c.1600. The house was clearly once attached to an open hall standing to its right (see following item).
Listing NGR: TL9782359000
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280837
- 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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