Royal Oak House and Seagull Cottage

Royal Oak House and Seagull Cottage, The Street, Wattisfield, Diss, IP22 1NS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1182581
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Royal Oak House and Seagull Cottage
Statutory Address:
Royal Oak House and Seagull Cottage, The Street, Wattisfield, Diss, IP22 1NS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1182581
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Royal Oak House and Seagull Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
Royal Oak House and Seagull Cottage, The Street, Wattisfield, Diss, IP22 1NS

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Royal Oak House and Seagull Cottage, The Street, Wattisfield, Diss, IP22 1NS

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 00998 74181

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 May 2021 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standard

TM 07 SW
3/110

WATTISFIELD
THE STREET (west side)
Royal Oak House and Seagull Cottage

(Formerly listed as Royal Oak House)

GV
II
House, formerly a public house and two cottages. Early C19. Timber-framed, C20 rendering with incised panels; an oak tree in high relief, coloured, on the centre front: double roman tiles. Two storeys. Two internal chimney-stacks with plain shafts of old red brick. Four three-light casement windows to the upper floor with two horizontal bars to lights; one small single-light window with cross glazing bars. Five casement windows to the ground floor, all three-light, two with a single bar to lights, the remainder with three horizontal bars. A simple plank door up a flight of brick steps and a further entrance door in the left gable end. Included for Group Value.

Listing NGR: TM0099874181

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
281855
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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