Walnut Tree Cottage
WALNUT TREE COTTAGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182552
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WALNUT TREE COTTAGE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182552
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALNUT TREE 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:
- WALNUT TREE 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:
- Wattisfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00964 74130
Details
TM 07 SW WATTISFIELD THE STREET (WEST SIDE)
3/107 Walnut Tree Cottage
10/3/87
GV II
House. Late C15 and early C17. Timber-framed and rendered; thatched roof with decorated ridge. 1½ storeys; 3-cell form; 4 bays. One internal and one end chimney-stack, both with plain red brick shafts. 3 eyebrow dormers with 2-light small-paned C20 casement windows. One single-light and 2 3-light standard casement windows to the ground floor. Wide single-storey enclosed porch with side entry and a 3-light standard casement window on the front; thatched roof sloping into the main roof. On the extreme right below the eaves a small C17 2-light mullioned window with barred lights. All that survives of the C15 house are the 2 bays of the former open hall with the 2 opposing 4-centred arched doorways of the cross-entry still in situ, and on the rear wall the upper part of a 6-light diamond-mullioned hall window with the mullions remaining. Chimney-stack, inserted backing on to the cross- entry, has 2 pointed niches on the back wall; a plain timber lintel to the ground floor hearth. Inserted beam in hall chamfered, with curved stops, bar, and scribed zig-zag ornament, also on the post-head. Hall roof of rough coppice-wood: smoke-blackened coupled rafters with remains of original plaster laid against the thatch as a fire precaution. A plain early C17 parlour block replaces the medieval service area: widely-spaced joists,,plain timber lintel on ground floor, brick arch to smaller hearth on upper floor; in the rear ground-floor wall a late C17 4-light window with square moulded mullions (cf. similar mullions at Park Farmhouse, Item 3/98). To the left of the hall a small bay added in the C17. For a more detailed account of the house cf. Procs. Suff. Inst. Arch. Vol XXXI Pt 1 (1968) p.64 et seq: S. Colman, 'Two Small Medieval Houses'.
Listing NGR: TM0096474130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281852
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colman, S J, Two Small Medieval Houses Walnut Cottage Wattisfield and Friars Hall Rattlesden, (1967)
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Vol. 31, (1968), 64
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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