White Horse Inn
WHITE HORSE INN, IPSWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181922
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- White Horse Inn
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HORSE INN, IPSWICH ROAD
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- Date:
- 2006-06-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/11628/15
- Rights:
- © Prof John N. Buxton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181922
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- White Horse Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HORSE INN, IPSWICH ROAD
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:
- WHITE HORSE INN, IPSWICH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Ash
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornham Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1126270932
Details
STOKE ASH IPSWICH ROAD
TM 17 SW
1/83 White Horse Inn
29.7.55
-- II
Public House, former coaching inn. Early to mid C17, extensively altered and
extended mid C19. Timber framed and plastered. Whitewashed brick ground
floor. Steeply-pitched plaintiled roof. Large 3 cells with a 2-bay kitchen
wing to rear to form a T on plan. 2 storeys and attics. Entrance in C19
gabled porch to right of centre with octagonal angle piers, segmental-headed
outer opening. Flanking cross casements with chamfered mullions and transoms,
outer bays have similar 6-light mullion and transom casements. Offset plinth,
English bond brick on ground floor, plat band to first floor with 3, 4 and 3-
light casements; all windows have hoodmoulds. Gables over each cell with 2-
light casements, wavy finialed bargeboards. Ridge stack to left of centre
rebuilt in C19 with moulded head to base, 4 separate round shafts with helical
mouldings. Gable ends have similar casements, an entrance with a segmental
pointed arched head to left. Kitchen wing extends to rear right with a
similar ridge stack with fluted shafts. To rear left a C19 whitewashed brick
addition with a shallow slate roof, stack with 4 diagonally-set shafts.
Interior. Stop-chamfered cross-axial binding beams, frame largely concealed,
double arched braces from posts to tie beams removed, cambered collars to side
purlin roof. C19 staircase with ramped handrail and turned newel post. A C20
extension to rear links to a rendered timber framed outbuilding with a
pantiled roof.
The asset was previously listed twice also at List entry 1181040. The asset was removed from the List on 27 February 2018.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281668
- 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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