Boat House Known As Water House
BOAT HOUSE KNOWN AS WATER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239913
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Boat House Known As Water House
- Statutory Address:
- BOAT HOUSE KNOWN AS WATER HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239913
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Boat House Known As Water House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOAT HOUSE KNOWN AS WATER HOUSE
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:
- BOAT HOUSE KNOWN AS WATER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Redgrave
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 06124 76611
Details
REDGRAVE REDGRAVE PARK TM 061766 2/84 Boat House known as Water - House GV II Boat house, latterly a gamekeeper's cottage for Redgrave Park Estate. Designed as part of landscaping of the park to be an eyecatcher from Redgrave Hall (demolished). c.1766-70, by Capability Brown for R Holt; extended and slightly raised early and late C19. White brick and flint with stone dressings and later red brick. Black glazed pantiled roof. A rectangle on plan with a lean-to added on one side. 2 storeys. Gable end facing former Hall has an entrance with a half glazed door, gauged brick flat arched head; above a string course and a blocked lunette all in a relieving arch. Outside the arch this facade has banded rustication, flint rubble with rendered bands, above a moulded pediment. Early C19 lean-to to left also has rusticated flint. Symmetrical 3 bay right return is all white brick and faces lake, ground floor gauged brick flat arched heads, first floor stone sills, dentilled timber eaves. Left return on lean-to is flint with a ground floor 2-light casement, first floor 2-light glazing bar horizontal sliding sash. To rear red and white brick with a door into lean-to, ground floor gauged brick heads, original wallplates exposed. Roof raised in late C19 with red brick above original roof line. (D. Stroud, Capability Brown, 1975, pp.112-13).
Listing NGR: TM0612476611
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437958
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stroud, D, Capability Brown, (1975), 112-13
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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