Melford Cottage
Melford Cottage, The Green, Redgrave, IP22 1RR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254343
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Melford Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Melford Cottage, The Green, Redgrave, IP22 1RR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254343
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Melford Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Melford Cottage, The Green, Redgrave, IP22 1RR
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:
- Melford Cottage, The Green, Redgrave, IP22 1RR
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 04635 77464
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 May 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
TM 0477
5/71
REDGRAVE
THE GREEN (SOUTH SIDE)
Melford Cottage
(Formerly listed as Bridge House)
II
House, latterly two dwellings. Late C16, altered and part rebuilt C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled roof. Three cell cross entry plan. Two storeys. Entrance into hall to left of original entrance, two-light glazing bar casements, C20 gabled dormers. Lean-to in front of rebuilt parlour bay, rebuilt ridge stack between hall and parlour. To right a C20 porch and external C19 kitchen stack in a lean-to outshut.
Interior: much of frame concealed, four bays survive, hall has jowled storey posts to a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam. First floor had large five-light diamond mullioned windows, reverse cranked arched braces in walling, edge halved scarf joint, a sharply cambered tie beam, clasped purlin roof, originally hipped to service end.
Listing NGR: TM0463577464
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437812
- 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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