Charity Cottage
CHARITY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198043
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Charity Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHARITY COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198043
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Charity Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARITY 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:
- CHARITY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Margaret, Ilketshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 34306 85467
Details
ILKETSHALL ST. MARGARET TM 38 NW 1/28 Charity Cottage - - II House. Late C16. Formerly 2 storeys and attics, now 2 storeys, as the original upper ceilings have been removed. Timber-framed and rendered, with mock framing painted on the outside. Thatched roof; plain square shaft to internal chimney stack. C20 leaded-paned casement windows, door and porch, the latter in old red bricks, enclosed, and crow-stepped. A C20 extension at the east end with a mansard roof. Frame in 5 bays including a chimney-bay: 2- cell lobby-entrance plan. Ceilings exposed in both ground-storey rooms: plain unchamfered joists, main beams with 2½" chamfer and curved stops. Repaired open fireplaces. Trusses with short, straight braces, some removed, and none to the 2 trusses of the chimney-bay: main posts with slight jowl. At the west end, cranked braces to the corners on long and side walls. Squint-butted scarf joints in both wallplates. Roof with principal rafters, ceiled off just below purlin level. There is a good deal of replacement studding, but the main frame is still as original.
Listing NGR: TM3430685467
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282245
- 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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