Ancient House Priest's House
ANCIENT HOUSE, UPPER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198607
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ancient House Priest's House
- Statutory Address:
- ANCIENT HOUSE, UPPER STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07933/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198607
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ancient House Priest's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANCIENT HOUSE, UPPER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- PRIEST'S HOUSE, UPPER 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.
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:
- ANCIENT HOUSE, UPPER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PRIEST'S HOUSE, UPPER STREET
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 04659 34321
Details
TM 0434 STRATFORD ST MARY UPPER STREET (south side) 5/40 Ancient House and Priest's House (formerly listed as Gable Cottage 22.2.55 and Priest's House) GV II Two houses. Late C15-early C16 with later alterations and renovation. Timber- framed, plain tile roofs. Red brick stack. 2 parallel ranges standing gable end to street. 2 storeys, attic to Priest's House, the latter 3 bays, Ancient House 2 bays. Priest's House slightly higher. 1st floors jettied to front. Close studding throughout. Ancient House entrance through single-storey addition at left. Restored 6-light diamond mullion window and single arched light to ground floor. 5-light mullion window above. Jowled posts, arched down braces. Swept roof. Priest's House: entrance by added porch to right return. Fine inserted windows, to ground floor 7-light mullion window with ogee-traceried heads, 3-light mullion side windows with leaf scroll carved sills. Slender attached colonnettes with capitals support jetty brackets. Moulded wall plate and vine scroll bressumer. 7-light mullion window above with ogee lights and panelled Perpendi- cular tracery. Panels of blind tracery below. Moulded tie beam and 2-light window to attic. Steeply-pitched swept roof. Stack rises in valley of roofs. Right return has gabled porch with apparently reused Tudor-arched entrance and traceried windows. Interior: Ancient House, deep chamfer-stopped beam with exposed joists. Fine large orange brick inglenook with moulded corbelled-out jambs and moulded cambered bressumer. Moulded brick panel above. Blocked arched doorway in partition wall with Priest's House. 1st floor open to roof. Incorporated into later partition wall central truss with chamfered jowled post, arch brace to chamfered cambered tie beam supporting chamfered crown post with run-out stop braced to collar purlin. Further brick inglenook with corbelled-out jambs and cambered bressumer with probable merchant's marks. Priest's House: moulded wall plates and central moulded beam with run-out stop and moulded joists. Blocked Tudor-arched door against partition wall with Ancient House. Further Tudor-arched doorway with cavetto jambs and carved spandrels to rear wall. Unusual fine cambered bressumer with cresting and cusped mouchette enrichment to remodelled inglenook. Wall post with pair of carved heads, one male and one female. C17 staircase with original treads and risers. Chamfered newels with paired ball finials, column balusters and moulded handrail. Crown post roof square posts with thin chamfered braces to purlin.
Listing NGR: TM0465934321
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277239
- 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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