Minsmere House
MINSMERE HOUSE, 15A, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199436
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Minsmere House
- Statutory Address:
- MINSMERE HOUSE, 15A, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13550/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199436
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Minsmere House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MINSMERE HOUSE, 15A, HIGH 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:
- MINSMERE HOUSE, 15A, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Debenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1738363313
Details
DEBENHAM HIGH STREET (east side)
TM 16 SE
6/85 No.15A (Minsmere House)
9.12.55 (formerly listed as
Premises adjoining The
Recess on N. side;
Premises 15 yds SE of Oak
House)
GV II
House and shop. C16, in 2 phases. Timber framed; plastered upper floor with
remains of old plaster panels. Ground floor underbuilt in colourwashed brick.
Pantiled roof. 2 storeys. 3 shopfronts under continuous fascia: large-paned
shop windows, semi-glazed panelled doors. Upper floor has 4 sash windows with
glazing bars and a casement window to left. At extreme right is a carriage
entrance with boarded doors. Internal stack, set forward of the roof ridge.
Interior. 2 bays to left have some regular heavy studding; closely-spaced
plain joists in ceiling of ground floor with evidence for former jetty to
street. Heavy arched braces to central tie beam. To right a wider range,
probably older, contemporary with carriage entrance. Some exposed framing.
Original structure of carriage entrance largely missing, apparently as the
result of a fire. Remains of a plain crown-post roof. Roof over left section
not examined.
Listing NGR: TM1738363313
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281509
- 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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