The Poplars
THE POPLARS, OLD SCHOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234805
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Poplars
- Statutory Address:
- THE POPLARS, OLD SCHOOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234805
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Poplars
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE POPLARS, OLD SCHOOL 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:
- THE POPLARS, OLD SCHOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brettenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL9739454130
Details
1.
TL 95 SE
33/496
BRETTENHAM
OLD SCHOOL ROAD
THE POPLARS
II
2.
Former farmhouse. Late C15 and C17. Timber-framed and rendered; roof, with corru-
gated iron sheeting over old thatch, is hipped on the left, half-hipped on the right.
1½ storeys. An internal chimney-stack with a plain rebuilt red brick shaft. 2 gabled
dormers to front with old 2-light leaded-paned casement windows. One 3-light and
one 2-light C20 metal casement window to the ground floor, and a single-light window
to each side of the entrance door. 3-cell plan, now with lobby entrance; frame in
5 bays. The centre of the house contains 1½ bays of a former open hall with crown-
post roof. The tie-beam and crown-post of the open truss have been cut away, but
the collar-purlin remains, with mortices for braces and extensive smoke-blackening
below thick layers of whitewash. Later plastering covers the rafters and collars.
The chimney-stack, which appears to be in 2 sections, has been inserted into the hall
against the line of the former open truss. Beside it, diamond-mullioned housings for
a hall window in the rear wallplate. The inserted ceiling in the one remaining full
bay of the hall has a main beam, with wide chamfer and curved stepped stops, resting
on a short post against the stack, similarly finished. At the left end, the former
service bay, still divided into 2, has a C20 replacement ceiling. To the right of
the stack, a marked break in the wallplates and a 2-bay section with exposed ground-
floor ceiling: joists on edge. All visible studding is substantial and widely-spaced,
some of it with small modern studs inserted between the original ones; no middle rail;
tension braces in the end walls. The building, which stands on a moated site, is
currently empty and derelict.
Listing NGR: TL9739454130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277178
- 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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