Post Office Stores Thimble Cottage
POST OFFICE STORES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198289
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office Stores Thimble Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE STORES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198289
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office Stores Thimble Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE STORES
- Statutory Address 2:
- THIMBLE 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:
- POST OFFICE STORES
- Statutory Address:
- THIMBLE 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, South Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 31873 83675
Details
SOUTH ELMHAM, ST. MARGARET ST. MARGARET'S GREEN TM 38 SW
4/72 Post Office Stores & - Thimble Cottage
GV II
A pair of cottages, with a shop to part of the northern half. C17 core, altered and-extended to form cottages in late C18/early C19. 1 storey and attics. Timber-framed and rendered; clay pantiles. An internal chimney- stack, with a large plain red brick shaft, is set between the 2 cottages. 4 gabled dormers with 2-light casement windows, 3 with transomes. Various ground floor windows: 3-light with transomes to Thimble Cottage; 2-light C20 standards and one 4-light shop window with vertical bars, to the Post Office Stores. 2 4-panelled ½-glazed doors below open gabled porches with trellis- work and pantiles, and 2 later plank doors, one to the shop in a small lean-to addition. Interior has evidence of a C17 core to the range, probably of 2- cell lobby-entrance form, with the remains of substantial studding, middle rail, wallplate, and chamfered principal rafters. The remaining roof components are covered. To the older frame has been added some very sparse later framing, with primary braces and bisected studs, and ceilings with joists set on edge. The older frame is mainly visible on the upper floor.
Listing NGR: TM3187383675
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282332
- 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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