Elton House
ELTON HOUSE, 2, HAWKSMILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232208
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Elton House
- Statutory Address:
- ELTON HOUSE, 2, HAWKSMILL STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232208
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Elton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELTON HOUSE, 2, 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:
- ELTON HOUSE, 2, 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 08738 55233
Details
NEEDHAM MARKET HAWKSMILL STREET TM 0855
3/65 No.2, (Elton House ) (Formerly listed as No 2 9.12.55 (Temperance Hotel))
II
Shop and house. Roof of 1621 (as carved on purlin), but core possibly C16. Much remodelling in mid C19. 2 storeys, the range to High Street with attics. Timber-framed; the upper storey roughcast, the lower storey encased in C19 painted brick. Both ranges were formerly jettied towards the street on two sides at 1st floor level, the jetties meeting at posts at the corners of High Street, Hawksmill Street and King William Street. Plaintiled roofs with C19 undulating bargeboards and spike finial. Axial chimneys of red brick. Mainly mid C19 small-pane sashes. 4-panelled C19 entrance door to Elton House with oblong fanlight and a gabled canopy with undulating bargeboards. Shop windows and glazed entrance door of late C19 or early C20. Above the shop is a roof with two tiers of butt purlins and square cambered collars; one purlin has the well-carved date 1621, no doubt the date of construction. However, fragments of exposed carpentry elsewhere in the building suggest a possible C16 core.
Listing NGR: TM0873855233
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407542
- 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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