Lilac House
LILAC HOUSE, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181997
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lilac House
- Statutory Address:
- LILAC HOUSE, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181997
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lilac House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LILAC HOUSE, NEW 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:
- LILAC HOUSE, NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elmswell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 99001 63680
Details
TL 96 SE ELMSWELL NEW ROAD
5/32 Lilac House -
-- II
House, early C17 with fragmentary medieval core. 2 storeys and attics. 3- cell lobby-entrance plan. Timber-framed and roughcast: the parlour block to right has an oversailing gable tiebeam with delicately carved console brackets beneath. Concrete plaintiled roof. An axial early C17 chimney of red brick: sawtooth shaft and plinth with ovolo-moulded cornice. 3-light C19 casements at 1st storey and small-pane sashes with sidelights below. Mid C19 4-panelled. entrance door, the upper panels glazed. Interior: The C17 parlour block to right was added to an earlier building of which only the walling remains: this shows smoke-blackening and appears to have comprised an open hall of C15 or early C16 which must have had additional cells at left or right, or both: heavy arch-windbraced studding. The walls were raised and a floor inserted with good chamfered joists in late C16 or c.1600. C17 windbraced clasped- purlin roof throughout. A large lean-to outshut of late C18 or early C19 to rear.
Listing NGR: TL9900163680
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281135
- 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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