Decoy Cottage
DECOY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183186
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Decoy Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DECOY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183186
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Decoy Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DECOY COTTAGE
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:
- DECOY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nacton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 22955 40209
Details
In the entry for LEVINGTON ORWELL PARK 3/18 Decoy Cottages
the address shall be amended to read ORWELL PARK
Decoy Cottage
the first sentence of the description should be amended to read: Estate Cottage, originally a pair, c.1850.
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TM 23 NW LEVINGTON ORWELL PARK WITH STRATTON HALL 3/18 Nos 1 and 2 - Decoy Cottages
- II
Pair of estate cottages, c.1850. Built in the Cottage Ornée Style, for keepers of the decoy ponds, 100 metres to the N.W. on the Orwell park Estate. 2 storeys. Plastered walls, the upper floor oversailing on all sides, with curved brackets simulating joist-ends. Fish-scale tiled roofs with oversailing verges; prominent arcaded barge-boards with acorn drop-finials and turned spike-finials. Pair of gault brick chimneys at rear, each with 3 circular shafts, of spiral- and zigzag-carved brick; moulded caps and bases. Mullioned and transomed wooden windows with small iron panes of diamond and octagonal form. At 1st floor right and left gables are corbelled oriel windows with bonnet tiled roofs. Prominent, similar central entrance porch on 2 storeys, with features to the end gables; oversailing upper floor on an open framework of rustic posts and braces. Arched-headed entrance doorway; 4- panelled nail-head ornamented door with painted glazed upper panels.
Listing NGR: TM2295540209
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286184
- 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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