Long Wall
LONG WALL, NEWMANS GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257881
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Long Wall
- Statutory Address:
- LONG WALL, NEWMANS GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257881
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Long Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONG WALL, NEWMANS GREEN
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 WALL, NEWMANS GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Melford
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Melford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 87413 43607
Details
TL 84 SE LONG MELFORD NEWMAN'S GREEN
922/8/10019 Long Wall
- II
House. 1963 by Philip Dowson, with Peter Foggo as associate, for S V Williams. Restored 1995-96 with some alterations by Hugh Pilkington. Brick and timber construction. Flat roof, with single projecting brick stack. Single storey pavilion with roof area approxiamately square on plan, with largely open plan interior. A white-painted brick spine wall passes through house and extends from either end, separating arrival area from the main house and garden; roof oversailing wall with deep lapped boarded fascia. Seven bay entrance front serving entrance area with opaque glazing in timber frames. Seven bay garden front all glazed with alternate windows full-height sliding timber frames. Paired timber beams extend from mullions to support cantilever. Mullions form roof supports on cast concrete pads, on brick base wall which extends to form boundary of terrace to the left. Glazing continues to side elevations, with large sliding glazed door to terrace. Long built-in bench on the integral external terrace.
Interior: Fireplace in spine wall at back of living area. Other screens of unpainted timber continue the idiom of the house. Free-standing cooker unit and hood, built-in countertop and shelf below windows.
A distinguished and much published weekend house of simple elegance. It is noted for its Miesian plan, which is regionalised and rationalised through the brick and timber construction. Dawson acknowledged a debt to the Barcelona Pavilion and to the language of Greek architecture, yet the oversailing roof is also reminiscent of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Dowson intended the house to represent "simplicity in a meadow" and this he achieved supremely. The very rural setting is an important element to which the design responds. Pilkington's restoration and alterations have been sympathetic to these fundamentals.
Sources
Sherban Cantacuzino, Modern Houses of the World, 1964
Penelope Whiting, New Houses, 1964
Country Life, 25 February 1965, pp 432-3
Listing NGR: TL8741343607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463319
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cantacuzino, S, Modern Houses of the World, (1964)
Whiting, P, New Houses, (1964)
Country Life in 25 February, (1965), 432-3
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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