Honister House
HONISTER HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213286
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Honister House
- Statutory Address:
- HONISTER HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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- IOE01/13548/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213286
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Honister House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HONISTER HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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:
- HONISTER HOUSE, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Botesdale
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0478875876
Details
TM 0475
6/9
29.7.55
BOTESDALE
MARKET PLACE (NORTH EAST SIDE)
Honister House (formerly listed as Premises occupied by Chilvers (Drapery Stores))
GV
II
House, formerly 2 dwellings with a brush factory. Mid C17 with C16 origins,
altered c.1830, extended later C19. Timber frame, plastered, some
weatherboarding. Steeply pitched pantiled roofs. 2 cell, 3 bay, 2 storey and
attic main block; 2 bay, 2 storey section to right has earlier origins, C19
former factory additions to far right. Main block has a central entrance,
early C19 vertically panelled door with a pointed arched head, plain surround,
elaborate doorhead in a loosely Tudor style, pendant drops, jewel lozenges,
pulvinated frieze and dentillations to a cyma cornice. Flanking early C19 3-
light cavetto mullion and transom glazing bar casements with hoodmoulds, three
2-light gabled dormers, external white brick end stacks, that to left as part
of Drapery Stores (q.v.), that to right with a rebuilt cap. Lower 2 bays to
right have an entrance in a C20 porch to right, glazing bar casements, moulded
coved eaves, rebuilt cross axial ridge stack to right of centre. Former
factory to right is as a 2 bay 2 storey house with a shallower roof pitch,
central boarded door, glazing bar casements, top hung on first floor. Right
end lean-to with a former coach-house beyond with segmental headed double
doors. To rear from main range a central 2 storey lean-to with a first floor
leaded cross casement, 1 storey lean-to to right; behind lower build a 1
storey and attic part brick gabled bay projects; C19 addition has 2 external
stacks and beaded weatherboarding to rear. Interior: early C19 slung dogleg
staircase with slat balusters, bar and indent ogee stop chamfered cross axial
binding beams, butt purlin roof with tension windbracing, in lower section an
edge halved scarf joint, frame largely concealed.
Listing NGR: TM0478875876
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280730
- 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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