Ravenys
RAVENYS, DEDHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198518
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ravenys
- Statutory Address:
- RAVENYS, DEDHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198518
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ravenys
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAVENYS, DEDHAM ROAD
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:
- RAVENYS, DEDHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 05546 34407
Details
TM 0534 STRATFORD ST MARY DEDHAM ROAD (east side) 5/20 - Ravenys (formerly listed 22.2.55 as Byways) II Raveners on O.S. map. House. Late C15-C16 with C20 alterations. Timber-framed, rendered except garden front of cross wing with red brick nogging. Brick under- building to road front. Plain tile roof. Red brick stacks. 2 storeys, L-plan, originally jettied to street. Present entrance to gable end of main range, C20 porch. Garden front: C20 single-storey range under tiled roof extends main range out to level of projecting cross wing. C20 plank doors with Tudor arches and restored mullion windows with leaded lights. Off-centre saw-tooth stack to left. Swept roof. Cross wing: framing exposed, jowled posts with studding and down braces. Restored ovolo mullion windows. Rendered gable with bargeboards. Large external stack to return wall with saw-tooth stack. Road front was originally jettied, now underbuilt in painted brick. Further restored mullion windows and bargeboards to gable of cross wing. Interior: studded walls. Chamfered beams and exposed joists. Cross wing 1st floor diamond mortices and shutter grooves of original windows. Collar rafter roof to main range with slight smoke blackening. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces to cross wing. In 1442 the land on which the house stands was granted to William Smyth and William Wade on condition they rebuilt the house (Griffin). Two drawings of the house by John Constable are in the Victoria & Albert Museum 'A Country Road, Cottage and Figures' and 'Water Lane, Stratford St Mary', both of 1827.
Griffin, J H H (Rector), The Village of Stratford St Mary and its church. 1964 pp.1-2. (Unpublished guidebook.)
Listing NGR: TM0554634407
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277219
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Griffin, JHH, The Village of Stratford St Mary and its Church Suffolk, (), 1-2
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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