Five Bells Inn
FIVE BELLS INN, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182373
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Five Bells Inn
- Statutory Address:
- FIVE BELLS INN, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182373
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Five Bells Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIVE BELLS INN, 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 INN, 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:
- TL 93607 61790
Details
TL 96 SW HESSETT THE STREET (WEST SIDE)
4/79 Five Bells Inn -
GV II
Public house, C16 and C17 in about 5 phases. One storey and attics. 2 storey crosswing. Hall range to left, cross-wing at centre, an addition to right. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roofs: two gabled C19 dormers with small-pane casements. Two axial C17 chimneys of red brick, both with rebuilt upper shafts. Late C19 or early C20 small-pane casements. 3 early C20 half- glazed panelled entrance doors with cornices. A complex building with much alteration before c.1700. The cross-wing is earliest: the front 2 bays have good close studding and unchamfered floor joists laid flat (mainly concealed), all late C16 work. Behind, a room has tension-braced studding and mullioned window evidence, of mid C16 or earlier. A further, lower range to rear of about 2 bays, late C16 or early C17. The hall was rebuilt during C17 with butt-purlin roof, but reusing a good mid C16 1st floor structure with a massive binding beam and floor joists of large section: an open fireplace with deep cambered lintel. The right hand range was added in C17/C18.
Listing NGR: TL9360761790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281182
- 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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