Bridges Cottages
BRIDGES COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231696
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bridges Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGES COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231696
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bridges Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGES COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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:
- BRIDGES COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Darmsden
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 09243 52723
Details
BARKING DARMSDEN TM 05 SE
2/34 Nos. 1 & 2 Bridges - Cottages
- II
Two houses, built as one in C16, with major alterations of C17 and later. 3- cell cross-passage entrance plan. 1 storey with attics. Timber-framed and plastered; the front elevation with cable-pattern pargetting, and one end wall with exposed framing and plaster infill panels. Roman pantiled roof with gabletted hip at right hand end and axial chimney of red brick; a C19 gabled casement dormer. Various C19 and C20 casements. 4-panelled C19 entrance door and glazed C20 porch. To the front of the left-hand parlour end (now part of Cottage No.1) is a 2-storey 2-cell extension of C17 or C18. Plaintiled roof. Various small-pane casements some with leaded lights. A blocked 1-storey plastered and plaintiled entrance porch gave access to a lobby entrance at a large axial chimney. The main framing members and many rafters of the lower range are of C16, but the 1st floor joists are laid flat and chamfered in the C17 manner, and much of the studwork and the clasped-purlin roof are of C17/C18. Large chimney of C16/C17 with open lintelled fireplace backing against cross-passage.
Listing NGR: TM0924352723
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406589
- 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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