Long Meadow
LONG MEADOW, HOLLY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251602
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Long Meadow
- Statutory Address:
- LONG MEADOW, HOLLY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251602
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Long Meadow
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONG MEADOW, HOLLY 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:
- LONG MEADOW, HOLLY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Willisham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 06518 50057
Details
WILLISHAM HOLLY ROAD TM 05 SE 2/163 Long Meadow - - II
An early C16 3-cell open-hall house with alterations of early C17 and mid C20. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof with axial C17 chimney of red brick having sawtooth-pattern shaft; a C20 eyebrow casement dormer. C20 casements with leaded glazing. C20 boarded entrance aoor; the large suspended flat canopy has an arcaded soffit. An unusually complete example of an open hall house, with framing fully exposed. The 2-bay hall is smoke- blackened. It has an open truss with a cambered tie-beam and octagonal crown- post with 2-way plank braces. Large blocked diamond-mullioned windows in the hall; several others also survive from C16 and C17 phases. Close-studwork with shortened arch-type wind-bracing. In C17, the parlour was enlarged and a chimney built between it and the hall, with arched fireplaces to parlour and chamber above, ana a lintelled opening in the hall. Upper floor inserted into hall and into previously unfloored service-cell. The parlour chamber has C17 open truss of arch-braced collar-beam type. To right a lower range,(possibly kitchen) was added in C17/C18 and largely rebuilt in C20.
Listing NGR: TM0651850057
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434322
- 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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