137 AND 137A, HIGH STREET, NEEDHAM MARKET
137 AND 137A, HIGH STREET, NEEDHAM MARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261496
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 137 AND 137A, HIGH STREET, NEEDHAM MARKET
- Statutory Address:
- 137 AND 137A, HIGH STREET, NEEDHAM MARKET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261496
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 137 AND 137A, HIGH STREET, NEEDHAM MARKET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 137 AND 137A, HIGH STREET, NEEDHAM MARKET
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:
- 137 AND 137A, HIGH STREET, NEEDHAM MARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Needham Market
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08689 55268
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/12/2011
TM 0855
3/101
9.12.55
NEEDHAM MARKET
HIGH STREET (WEST)
Nos.137 and 137A
(Formerly listed as Variations, and No.137, Hallgarth House (formerly listed as No.137))
II
House and hairdressers shop, mid C16 with alterations of C19 and C20. 2
storeys, partly with attics. 3-cell plan. Timber-framed with roughcast
panels with broad borders, and over the entrance a cartouche bearing the date
1482 (but until c1980 the cartouche contained the date 1716 and initials C
over R.M.). The upper floor is long-wall jettied with knees beneath.
Plaintiled roof with a few crested ridge tiles. Axial and end chimneys of red
brick. Late C20 casements, those of No.137 having an arched head to each
light. Variations has a pair of late C20 shop windows and glazed entrance
door. No.137 has a C19 4-panelled door at the cross-entry position. In the
hall is a moulded bridging joist, and twin service rooms to right have exposed
studwork. Plain crownpost roof with 2-way bracing. Large chimney between
hall and parlour.
Listing NGR: TM0868655266
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436933
- 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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