15-17, SILENT STREET

15-17, SILENT STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1264210
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
15-17, SILENT STREET
Statutory Address:
15-17, SILENT STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1264210
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
15-17, SILENT STREET
Statutory Address 1:
15-17, SILENT STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
15-17, SILENT STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Ipswich (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TM 16286 44331

Details

1. SILENT STREET

1260 Nos. 15-17

TM 14 SE SP/295

II GV

2 houses, the survival of a perhaps originally longer range built gable end-on. C16 timber frame. C18 and C20 exterior details. No 15 plastered rendered, No 17 brick ground floor underbuilt, tile hung first floor. Jetty. Single window ranges, 2 storeys with attics. No 15 has one ground floor C20 tripartite sash window with glazing bars, one first floor C20 sash window with glazing bars. No 17 has one ground and one first floor sash with glazing bars, one 2-light sliding casement dormer window. Raised and fielded panel door, upper panel glazed. Tiled roof with central stack. Gable at west rebuilt. INTERIOR: No 15 has ground floor longitudinal spine beam with original wall plate. Second floor has inserted second wall plate with studding showing the heightening of roof. Close set studding, thick joists visible throughout. One first floor matrix of original wooden mullion window. No 17 has more substantially surviving frame. Jettied first floor with studding, one passing brace and one 5- light diamond section mullion window, 2 mullions surviving. Rear wall has 3 wattle and daub panels. Original roof heightened with extra studding and new wall plate. Original stack, replaced above ridge level.

Listing NGR: TM1628644331

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
428462
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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