Stour

STOUR, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1194193
Date first listed:
17-Sept-1986
List Entry Name:
Stour
Statutory Address:
STOUR, THE STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1194193
Date first listed:
17-Sept-1986
List Entry Name:
Stour
Statutory Address 1:
STOUR, THE STREET

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
STOUR, THE STREET

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
East Bergholt
National Grid Reference:
TM 06945 34509

Details

TM 0634 EAST BERGHOLT THE STREET (West Side)

6/81 Stour

17.9.86

GV II

Large house. C13 with C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond. Slate roof. Three storeys, the upper floor possibly being an addition. Garden front: full-height 3-window canted bays flank 3-bay centre. Central Ionic doorcase with entablature contains glazed door. Further glazed doors to canted bays flanked by 15-pane sashes. Otherwise 12-pane sashes in reveals with sills under cambered gauged brick arches. Moulded second floor band. Cornice. Hipped roof. Road front: 7 bays, later range adjoins at right. Central square projecting Doric porch with double leaf doors, of probable C20 date. Sashes with glazing bars under cambered gauged brick arches. Interior: dining room retains wall panelling, eared bolection-moulded fireplace, 6-panel doors and panelled shutters. Central staircase hall, originally 2 rooms, retains some wall panelling. Somewhat remodelled, cut-string staircase with 3 barleysugar-on-vase balusters per tread, fluted Corinthian newels, ramped handrail and carved tread-ends. Panelled dado follows line of stair. Drawing room to south, originally 2 rooms has some wall panelling and carved pine eared fireplaces. To first floor, one fully-panelled room with 2-panel doors with L-hinges and several other rooms with original cornices. known originally as West Lodge, this house was renamed Stour by Randolph Churchill, who lived here 1954 to his death in 1968. The house may be seen in East Bergholt Fair of 1811 by John Constable.

Listing NGR: TM0694534509

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Legacy System number:
278789
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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