Oak Cottage
OAK COTTAGE, NORWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183164
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Oak Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OAK COTTAGE, NORWICH ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07906/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183164
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Oak Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAK COTTAGE, NORWICH 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:
- OAK COTTAGE, NORWICH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stonham Parva
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 12038 61399
Details
LITTLE STONHAM NORWICH ROAD TM 16 SW 2/141 Oak Cottage (formerly listed
- 9-12-55 as The Lilacs and Rose Cottage - II
House, C15 and mid C16 with major late C17 alterations. 2 storeys. 3-cell lobby-entrance plan. Timber-framed and plastered with late C20 false half- timbering. Thatched roof, hipped at right hand end, with axial C17 chimney of red brick, and one C19 gabled casement dormer. C18 casements, one at ground storey having transomes; other C19 small-pane casements. C17 oak plank entrance door with an oblong fanlight reconstructed from C17 ovolo mullions; a small C20 plaintiled canopy. The 3 cells are of different dates: the parlour block to left is of mid C16 with heavy studwork with arch wind-bracing; the gable (formerly half-hipped) has a pair of base-crucks with tension-bracing. Altered coupled-rafter roof. The upper floor was renewed in late C17. The service cell to right is of early C16 or possibly C15: a binding joist retains a heavy knee of mediaeval form. A diamond mullioned window, and clasped- purlin roof in this cell probably of late C16 or early C17. The central hall was totally rebuilt in late C17: small-section floor-joists, butt purlin roof and wide lintelled open fireplace. A number of moulded C16/C17 plank doors.
Listing NGR: TM1203861399
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279392
- 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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