The Plough

THE PLOUGH, MILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181568
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
The Plough
Statutory Address:
THE PLOUGH, MILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181568
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
The Plough
Statutory Address 1:
THE PLOUGH, MILL ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE PLOUGH, MILL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Wyverstone
National Grid Reference:
TM 03286 67344

Details

WYVERSTONE MILL ROAD (SOUTH SIDE) TM 06 NW 4/129 The Plough - GV II

House, latterly a public house. Mid to late C16, altered C20. Timber frame on brick base, plastered. Steeply pitched machine pantiled roof. 5 bay 3 cell cross passage plan, altered to lobby entrance. 2 storeys and attic. Lobby entrance into a C20 lean-to porch to right of centre, C20 2-light casements; a clay lump, flint and brick C19 lean-to from service bay to left with a truncated stack. Rendered axial ridge stack to right of centre between hall and parlour. Right end brick lean-to addition, curved brackets to oversailing attic with exposed purlins. Left end stable door, to rear doors in original cross passage position and into parlour. Interior: traces of original cross passage doorways, service end largely rebuilt, hall stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, joists and storey posts, 4 and 7-light roll and hollow mullioned windows with roll moulded sills and lintels; a reset 4-centred arched door head in lobby entrance position. Parlour has close studding, stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and storey posts, restored 3, 6 and 7-light diamond mullioned windows. First floor large arched and cranked braces halved into walls from posts and mid-rails to studs stopping short of wallplates which have edge halved scarf joints; cranked and arched braces to cambered tie beams, many removed; diamond mullioned window openings at service end with an inserted subsidiary roof, parlour chamber ceiled with crossed stop chamfered binding beams. Purlins clasped by cambered collars, cranked windbraces. Parlour roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: TM0328667344

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
279585
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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