Limes Cottage
LIMES COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246208
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Limes Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LIMES COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246208
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Limes Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIMES COTTAGE
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:
- LIMES COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earl Stonham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0923059434
Details
1864/0/10002
13-NOV-01
STONHAM EARL
BROAD GREEN
Limes Cottage
II
House. Late C17. Plastered and colourwashed timber-frame with wattle and daub infill. Long straw thatched roof with catslide to rear and brick central ridge stack. 2-unit lobby-entry plan with outshut to rear. Single storey and attic. 2-window range of 2-light casements with central plank door. Small window over. Right end has a 2-light casement on each floor and plank door to far right. Left end C20 single-storey extension with 2-light casement in attic over. Outshut under catslide to rear. INTERIOR. Tall panel framing with bracing mainly visible though right end on ground floor covered over. Massive wall posts support chamfered bridging beams. Large stack built of narrow bricks has blocked back-to-back fireplaces with hoods. Fragment of winder stair survives in lobby with a later one leading from the left hand room. Plank doors. Only a small part of the roof is visible but wallplates, purlins and a collar are exposed in the plastered attic. In the rear outshut a brick twin bread oven.
A characteristic small house of the period which retains many features. .
Listing NGR: TM0923059434
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487432
- 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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