Wolfe House

Wolfe House, High Street, Laxfield, Woodbridge, IP13 8DX

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1181029
Date first listed:: 24-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: Wolfe House
Statutory Address:: Wolfe House, High Street, Laxfield, Woodbridge, IP13 8DX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1181029
Date first listed:: 24-Apr-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: Wolfe House
Statutory Address 1:: Wolfe House, High Street, Laxfield, Woodbridge, IP13 8DX

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Wolfe House, High Street, Laxfield, Woodbridge, IP13 8DX

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:: TM 29490 72378

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 November 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TM 27 SE 9/61

LAXFIELD HIGH STREET Wolfe House

(Formerly listed as The General Wolfe, THE STREET)

24.4.86

GV II Probably originally a farmhouse; used as a public house until 1952. Now private residence. Late C16/early C17 with later C17 wing to rear. Small earlier core. Timber framed and plastered; roof of modern plaintiles. Cement render and glazed black pantiles to rear wing.

Half-H plan with flanking cross-wings set forward; the left wing has been extended forward at a later date. Two storeys and attics. Various windows. C19 small-paned sash windows to wings; early C20 tripartite sash window to ground floor of right wing; left wing has large mid C20 showroom window. Casement windows to centre range, with a good C18 or early C19 three-light window to the ground floor. C19 six-panel door (the upper two panels glazed). C20 open lean-to across centre. Between the hall and the parlour wing is an axial stack with four attached shafts arranged as a cross.

Interior somewhat altered, especially the left wing which has been gutted on the ground floor. Unusually long parlour, the whole of the ground floor of the right wing. Both hall and parlour have plain joists. At the rear of the left wing a small section of framing at a lower level than the main structure, presumably part of an earlier range. Roof over central range has clasped purlins and cranked wind-bracing.

Listing NGR: TM2949072378

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Legacy System number:: 280181
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.