Five Bells Cottage
FIVE BELLS COTTAGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182325
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Five Bells Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FIVE BELLS COTTAGE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182325
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Five Bells Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIVE BELLS COTTAGE, THE STREET
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:
- FIVE BELLS COTTAGE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hessett
- National Grid Reference:
- TL9365361794
Details
TL 96 SW
4/73
15.11.54
HESSETT
THE STREET (EAST SIDE)
Five Bells Cottage
GV
II
House, c.1500-1530. 2 storeys. 3-cell cross-entry plan, but with an
additional integral service cell. Timber-framed and plastered: beaded panels
of C19 with herringbone pargetting. Plaintiled roof, hipped and gabletted to
right, half-hipped and gabletted to left. An axial chimney of red brick with
early C17 sawtooth shaft. C19 small-paned casements at 1st storey and early
or mid C20 3-light oak casements with leaded glazing below. C20 4-panelled
entrance door. A good-quality house of conventional layout, apart from the
provision of twin service rooms beyond the parlour to right, in addition to
those in the usual position. Heavy broadly-chamfered binding beams: that
central over the hall has chamfered archbraces beneath it, and traces of
shafts on the posts. Heavy unchamfered joists. Tension-braced close-studding
and diamond mullioned window evidence. Crownpost roof: chamfered square post
at open truss, thin 2-way braces up to collar purlin, and long rising braces
from the tie beam. Four-centred arched doorways, moved from original
positions, and evidence for others. The late C16 chimney has large lintelled
open fireplaces back-to-back, and one above. One has limestone jambs probably
taken from the Abbey of St Edmundsbury. Very deep lintels: both are taken
from even larger fireplaces, on the same site no doubt. The will of John
Bacon, the elder names a house on this site as "Reris", and leaves it to his
sister Margaret Fuller. (1513: Liber Johnson, f.119, Norwich Registry).
Listing NGR: TL9365361794
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281176
- 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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