Hawksmill Cottage
HAWKSMILL COTTAGE, 29, HAWKSMILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232205
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hawksmill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HAWKSMILL COTTAGE, 29, HAWKSMILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232205
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hawksmill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAWKSMILL COTTAGE, 29, HAWKSMILL STREET
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:
- HAWKSMILL COTTAGE, 29, HAWKSMILL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Needham Market
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08789 55340
Details
NEEDHAM MARKET HAWKSMILL STREET TM 0855
3/61 No.29, (Hawksmill Cottage) -
- II
House, early C16 with fragmentary C15 rear wing. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Timber-framed and plastered, the upper floor originally long-wall jettied towards the street. Concrete tiled roof. C20 small-pane casements and panelled entrance door. A high-quality 2-cell house which retains the altered rear bays of a C15 cross-wing. In the hall is a wide original fireplace with a fine lintel, embattled and rib-moulded, and with unusually well-carved brattishing; sunk panels of painted brick above. Good close-studwork with long arch - and tension-bracing. Complete crownpost roof, the open truss having a square unbraced crownpost. The rear wall has arch-braced principal posts without intermediate studwork, indicating a possible former aisle on the site of the present C20 extension. The C15 wing has massive 1st floor joists, tension-braced studwork and a blocked ovolo-moulded mullioned window intruded in c.1600.
Listing NGR: TM0878555341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407538
- 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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