Fitzgerald Cottage

FITZGERALD COTTAGE, WOODBRIDGE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183399
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:
Fitzgerald Cottage
Statutory Address:
FITZGERALD COTTAGE, WOODBRIDGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183399
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
31-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Fitzgerald Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
FITZGERALD COTTAGE, WOODBRIDGE 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.

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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:
FITZGERALD COTTAGE, WOODBRIDGE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Bredfield
National Grid Reference:
TM 26650 51386

Details

BREDFIELD (Off) WOODBRIDGE ROAD TM 25 SE 3/51 Fitzgerald Cottage 16/3/66 (formerly listed as Bredfield House) GV II House, formerly service wing of Bredfield House. C17 timber framed with colour-washed render and a plain pantile roof. Two storeys with basement. Entrance front: C20 gabled porch at right with a plank doorway. To left of this is a basement window of 2 horizontal lights set in a projecting plinth. The ground floor has a 2-light casement window at right and a sash window of 5 x 4 panes to left. Between these is a single-light casement window of 2 x 4 panes. To the first floor are, at right, a 3-light casement window and at left a 2-light similar window and between these a single-light window. To the ridge is a single-flue chimney stack at left and one of 2 flues to the right behind the ridge. Adjoining at right is a single- storey addition, formerly the servants hall with a blocked doorway at right of centre with cambered head and immediately to left of this a 2- light casement. The right hand gable end is mostly masked by this later addition, which has, to this front 4 sash windows divided by mullions, each of 3 x 4 panes with a hipped roof above. Left hand end: battered walling to the lower body and projecting gabled end of the lean-to at rear. This now has 2 first-floor windows of one and two casement lights. This gable end originally joined the main body of Bredfield House, which is now demolished. Rear: C19 lean-to with pantile catslide roof. This has 4 sash windows of 4 x 4 panes each.

Listing NGR: TM2665051386

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
285415
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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