The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, PETTAUGH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181548
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, PETTAUGH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181548
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, PETTAUGH LANE
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 COTTAGE, PETTAUGH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gosbeck
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 16346 55978
Details
GOSBECK PETTAUGH LANE TM 15 NE 4/72 The Cottage - - II
House, c.1530 with alterations of late C16 and C17. Originally a 2-cell house with cross-entry, and a smoke-bay at the right-hand gable. A 3rd cell may have existed on the site of a new parlour cell added in C17. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Roman pantiled roof, once thatched, with axial C17 chimney of red brick. Mid C20 small-pane casements and boarded entrance door. The 2-bay hall has steeply-cambered and (unusually) shoulded tie-beams at open and closed trusses. Studwork full-height with arch wind-braces; evidence for cross-entry doorways with arched heads. Complete lightly smoke- blackened coupled-rafter roof; the half-hip at the service end is encapsulated in the later structure. A depleted but original smoke-bay at the right hand end of the hall has heavy smoke encrustation. The service cell has large unchamfered floor joists, and in the hall are good chamfered first floor joists. A lintelled open C16/C17 fireplace stands within the smoke bay. Mid C20 extensions to left and to rear.
Listing NGR: TM1634655978
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279691
- 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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