Horse Engine House, 70 Metres North West of Dagworth Hall

HORSE ENGINE HOUSE, 70 METRES NORTH WEST OF DAGWORTH HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181754
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Horse Engine House, 70 Metres North West of Dagworth Hall
Statutory Address:
HORSE ENGINE HOUSE, 70 METRES NORTH WEST OF DAGWORTH HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1181754
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Horse Engine House, 70 Metres North West of Dagworth Hall
Statutory Address 1:
HORSE ENGINE HOUSE, 70 METRES NORTH WEST OF DAGWORTH HALL

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
HORSE ENGINE HOUSE, 70 METRES NORTH WEST OF DAGWORTH HALL

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Old Newton with Dagworth
National Grid Reference:
TM0415861561

Details

The following entry:-

OLD NEWTON WITH DAGWORTH
DAGWORTH
TM 06 SW 4/142
Horse-gin house, 50m north-east of Dagworth Hall

GV II

shall be amended to read:

OLD NEWTON WITH DAGWORTH
DAGWORTH
Horse engine house, 70m north-west of Dagworth Hall
TM 06 SW 4/142

GV II

Horse engine house, now disused. Mid C19, for Thomas Woodward, tenant farmer. Flint rubble and gault brick; on one face the flintwork has been replaced by C20 brick. Slated roof. Octagonal on plan. Upper part of walls has chequer-pattern ventilation openings. C20 boarded doors to west. On the east face is a blocked arch, through which the drive was taken to an adjacent barn, now gone. The interior is empty. Horse engine houses are rare in East Anglia and this is believed to be one of only 2 examples in Suffolk.

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OLD NEWTON WITH DAGWORTH
DAGWORTH
TM 06 SW 4/142
Horse-gin house, 50m north-east of Dagworth Hall

GV II

Horse-gin house, early C19. Plastered and tarred clay lump on a tarred flint and brick footing; semi-circular plan at both ends of building. Slated roof, hipped at both ends. Boarded doors. Projecting on the west side is a 4-bay parallel extension open on posts below, with a loft under a slated lean-to roof: slated louvres in the side walls. Iron tie-rods at 1st floor level with circular plates. Interior not examined. A rare example in Suffolk of a horse-gin house, corn being more normally ground by wind or water power in the early C19 in this area.

Listing NGR: TM0415861561

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
280625
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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