Lakenheath Hotel

124, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1193980
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Lakenheath Hotel
Statutory Address:
124, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1193980
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Lakenheath Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
124, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
LAKENHEATH HOTEL, 122, 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.

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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:
124, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
LAKENHEATH HOTEL, 122, 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:
Lakenheath
National Grid Reference:
TL 71612 82463

Details

TL 7182 LAKENHEATH HIGH STREET

11/29 No 122 (Lakenheath Hotel) ) - and No 124

- II

Hotel and shop, formerly house. Mid C18 with probably late C16 core, and early C19 alterations. 2 storeys, 6 windows. Stuccoed walls with string at 1st floor and at parapet and parapet-gables. Hipped slated and concrete tiled roof with axial chimney of gault brick and hipped slated casement dormers. Sash windows with segmental heads and small-pane sashes at 1st floor; windows at ground floor of 122 were converted to French casements in C19. No. 124 has C20 bay shop windows. Pair of C19 2-panelled entrance doors with side-lights, under a segmental fanlight with radial bars; flat-roofed open canopy on 2 circular columns. An C18 casement at rear has the scratch-date 1744. A ground floor room has complete mid C18 decoration: moulded cornice and fireplace surround, full panelling with many re-used C17 sections of wainscotting, fine staircase with moulded handrail and newels, turned balusters and carved console brackets to treads; panelled dado and soffit. A large truncated open fireplace and some fragments of timber-framing survive from a late C16 house. At No.124 is an early C19 extension to rear with mullioned and transomed windows.

Listing NGR: TL7161282463

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
275838
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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