Oak House
OAK HOUSE, 70, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193522
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Oak House
- Statutory Address:
- OAK HOUSE, 70, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193522
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Oak House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAK HOUSE, 70, HIGH 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:
- OAK HOUSE, 70, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brandon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7839086774
Details
TL 7886
10/7
7.5.54
BRANDON
HIGH STREET
No.70 (Oak House)
II*
House, formerly Inn. c.1730. Double-pile plan. 5 windows, 2 storeys with
attics. Gault brick with limestone modillion eaves cornice at front and rear
and string at 1st floor. 2-span roof, front section glazed pantiled, rear
section Roman pantiled and slated. Elliptical headed dormers with small-pane
casements. Parapet gables with gable chimneys of gault brick. Sash windows
with segmental arched heads of gauged brick; the sashes at 1st floor having
original small panes and thick bars, those at ground floor renewed with large
panes. C18 entrance doorway: a moulded broken pediment on console brackets.
Recessed within the doorway is a semicircular fanlight with thick radial bars.
Limestone steps. C19 half-glazed panelled door. Good original staircase with
moulded handrail and turned balusters. The entrance hall and 4 other rooms
have good joinery and moulded cornices of early C18. One parlour has full
fielded panelling; two 1st floor rooms have full-height reused early C17
wainscotting, one with a strapwork frieze at cornice level. 2 rooms have good
fireplace surrounds.
Listing NGR: TL7839086774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275816
- 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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