The Rushbrooke Arms Public House
THE RUSHBROOKE ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, BURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230272
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Rushbrooke Arms Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE RUSHBROOKE ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, BURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230272
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Rushbrooke Arms Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RUSHBROOKE ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, BURY 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:
- THE RUSHBROOKE ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, BURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Whelnetham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 87784 60686
Details
TL 86 SE LT. WELNETHAM BURY ROAD Sicklesmere 2/117 The Rushbrooke Arms P.H.
II
Public House, mid C16 core with alterations of several periods. 1 1/2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and rendered with C20 pargetting in panels. Thatched roof with thatched gabled casement dormers; C17 axial chimney of red brick with saw-tooth pattern flues. C20 small-pane 3-light casements and glazed panelled entrance doors. The 2-cell C16 core is in two phases; the jettied west gable-end now exposed within the later public bar has arch-braced close- studding and simple crownpost roof; the second phase has a coupled rafter roof. Open fire-places inserted back-to-back in C17. A timber-framed cell added to the east end C18. The public bar added to west end early C19; flint walling now rendered, C20 small-pane cross-windows. Known in the C19 as "The Waggoner".
Listing NGR: TL8778460686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404987
- 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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