Church House
CHURCH HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229467
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229467
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH HOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- CHURCH HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85572 59196
Details
TL 85 NE HAWSTEAD CHURCH ROAD
5/51 Church House (Formerly listed as Church 14.7.55 Farm Cottages)
II
House, formerly the Guildhall of St. James; late C15. Formerly-open hall with service cell. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and rendered. Glazed pantiled roof, hipped at right-hand end; gable and rear chimneys of red brick. C19 and C20 casements; an originally-unglazed diamond-mullioned window at 1st floor. 4- panelled C19 entrance door with architrave. A 3-bay open hall; crown-post roof, the open trusses having arch-braced tie-beams and octagonal crown-posts simply moulded, with originally 2-way arch-bracing. A pair of arch-headed doorways lead from the cross-passage into the service rooms, one of which was unlit and probably used for storage, also acting as a lobby into the kitchen beyond to left. The kitchen fireplace, rebuilt C17 and later, occupied the gable end wall to left. Good close-studded framing throughout, well-exposed internally. A screen inserted into the crosspassage C16 (now missing), with gallery above and access formed from service end. Full 1st floor structure inserted into hall C17. Converted to workhouse C18. Restored to house from cottages c.1970. A feoffment dated 1478 refers to this site as "newly built upon". Suffolk Record Office, Bury St. Edmunds, ref. 2680/7/3.
Listing NGR: TL8557259196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403993
- 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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