Gatehouse to Plumpton House Including Well House Immediately East
GATEHOUSE TO PLUMPTON HOUSE INCLUDING WELL HOUSE IMMEDIATELY EAST, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231002
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Plumpton House Including Well House Immediately East
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE TO PLUMPTON HOUSE INCLUDING WELL HOUSE IMMEDIATELY EAST, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231002
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Plumpton House Including Well House Immediately East
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE TO PLUMPTON HOUSE INCLUDING WELL HOUSE IMMEDIATELY EAST, CHEDBURGH ROAD
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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:
- GATEHOUSE TO PLUMPTON HOUSE INCLUDING WELL HOUSE IMMEDIATELY EAST, 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 81428 58595
Details
TL 85 NW WHEPSTEAD CHEDBURGH ROAD
4/155 Gatehouse To Plumpton House including Well-House immediately east
II
Gatehouse to Plumpton House. Late C19 or Edwardian. 1 1/2 storeys. Mock-timbered and roughcast-rendered above a high red brick plinth. Half-hipped plaintiled roof with a large gable above the central entry. Wide, high entry with hammer beam roof, mainly boxed-in with close-studded partitions so that only the supporting arched braces and the hammer beams are visible. At collar-level a ceiling with exposed joists. The central gable has projecting eaves and studding in the apex: a small flat-headed dormer in each of its roof-slopes. A cottage on each side of the entry with an internal red brick chimney-stack, which has a rectangular shaft and heavily corbelled head; a gabled dormer with 3-light casement windows, plain projecting barge-boards and studding in the apex; and, on the ground floor, a flat-headed canted bay with a 4-light casement window. All the windows have square leaded panes with tiny diamond panes linking the squares. An entrance door in the side wall. 2 small single-storey extensions, in similar materials but not identical in style, have high end chimneys set internally with square shafts, a raised pilaster strip to each face, and heavily corbelled heads. This building is one of very few examples of mock-timbering in this part of Suffolk; it is also a landmark in the flat surrounding country. Including contemporary well-house immediately east; square plan open-sided timber-frame structure with posts at the corners supporting a gableted hipped roof with louvres in the gablets. Between the corner posts wooden railings with a gate on one side. The gatehouse and wellhouse were probably built in circa 1911 when Plumpton House was altered.
Listing NGR: TL8142858595
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406023
- 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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