Forge Close and Adjoining Premises
FORGE CLOSE AND ADJOINING PREMISES, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241213
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Close and Adjoining Premises
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE CLOSE AND ADJOINING PREMISES, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241213
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Close and Adjoining Premises
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE CLOSE AND ADJOINING PREMISES, THE 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:
- FORGE CLOSE AND ADJOINING PREMISES, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rickinghall Superior
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 04026 75177
Details
RICKINGHALL SUPERIOR THE STREET (SOUTH EAST TM 0475 SIDE) 6/150 Forge Close and adjoining 29.7.55 Premises (formerly listed as Premises opposite Camorna to south east) -- II Two houses. Mid to late C16 and C18, altered C20. Timber frames, plastered. Pantiled roof with thatch on later build. 3 cell main range with 2 cell 'unit house' added to rear right to form an L on plan. All 1 storey and attic. Steps up to a lobby entrance to right of centre, a recessed 6 panelled door with a lugged architrave, hoodboard. Flanking C20 3-light glazing bar casements, 2 lights to left or service end. C19 shaped brackets to boarded eaves, hall and parlour chamber 3-light gabled dormers. Cruciform ridge stack to right of centre between hall and parlour, rebuilt cap. Gable end bracketed pent ice boards to attic with exposed purlins. To rear a boarded door in cross entry position, a 2-light gabled dormer. 'Unit house' to rear is Forge Close. Outer central boarded door, flanking 2-light glazing bar casements, 2-light bargeboarded gabled dormers. Rear gable end external stack with exposed plates and purlins, a boarded lean-to outshut. Inner return has a rendered stack towards front, enlarged in C20; a pantiled brick lean-to outshut extended to rear in C20. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TM0402675177
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440140
- 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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