Bluecoat Boy Public House
BLUECOAT BOY PUBLIC HOUSE, OLD CATTLE MARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237240
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bluecoat Boy Public House
- Statutory Address:
- BLUECOAT BOY PUBLIC HOUSE, OLD CATTLE MARKET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237240
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bluecoat Boy Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLUECOAT BOY PUBLIC HOUSE, OLD CATTLE MARKET
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:
- BLUECOAT BOY PUBLIC HOUSE, OLD CATTLE MARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Ipswich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 16362 44396
Details
TM 1644 SW OLD CATTLE MARKET
3/444 Bluecoat Boy Public House
GV II
Public House. Dated 1620, extended C18 and early C20. Timber framed, rendered, with applied timber to upper storey surrounded raised plastered panels. Plaintile roofs to front, asbestos tiles to rear. Centre C17, right hand bay probably C18, altered, left hand bay early C20. 2 storeys, part with cellars and attics. Continuous jetty to C17 build, and to C20 wing. Ground floor, all 8 window open- ings temporarily boarded over. 3 part-glazed doors, one to each build. At first floor 4-light mullion to C20 wing, the outer two lights small paned, above the centre two lights a shallow flat-roofed small paned dormer. Main build has 3 similar small paned mullion windows, two of 3-lights, that to left of 2-lights; similar 3- light mullion window to right-hand bay. 2 small-paned two-light flat- headed dormers to main build. Moulded bressumer, bearing roses, pomegranates, foliate motives, the centre dated 1620. Similar reproduction bressumer to C20 wing. Rear, of added gabled wings, the ground floor brick, the upper storey, pebble-dash rendered. Left hand return similarly treated to main facade. Interior. Ground floor, all origin- al work covered, except for transverse beams with ovolo mouldings and run out stops. First floor exposed jowelled posts, fragment of studwork and stop chamfered trans- verse beams. Slender scantling beams to rear wings. Right hand bay, altered and extended to rear retains clasped purlin roof with reduced principles. Roof of main build not inspected.
Listing NGR: TM1636244396
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428468
- 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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