Plovers
PLOVERS, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230458
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Plovers
- Statutory Address:
- PLOVERS, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230458
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Plovers
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLOVERS, CHEDBURGH 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:
- PLOVERS, CHEDBURGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whepstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 81698 58766
Details
TL 85 NW WHEPSTEAD CHEDBURGH ROAD
4/126 Plovers (Formerly listed as House occupied 50.5.75 by Mr and Mrs A A H Bedington)
II
House, C15 with alterations of c.1600 and c.1850. A 3-cell open hall house; 1 1/2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and rendered. Thatched roof with eyebrow casement dormers; C16 axial and C19 gable chimneys of red brick. 2- and 3- light C19 windows with small-paned wrought iron casements, the top row of panes with arched heads. C20 oak-boarded entrance door and open timber porch with lean-to thatched roof. The C15 core much damaged by C17 and C19 alterations; the hall open truss has an arch-braced cambered tie-beam, with pilasters beneath the braces; it formerly had a 4-way braced crownpost. C.1600, the crown-post roof replaced by clasped purlin roof, and chimney built backing onto the cross-passage; 1st floor of elm inserted into hall. Divided into 3 cottages c.1850.
Listing NGR: TL8169858766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405376
- 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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