26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268193
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1974
List Entry Name:: 26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268193
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: 26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Saxmundham
National Grid Reference:: TM3868963151

Details

SAXMUNDHAM

TM3863 HIGH STREET 841-1/3/15 (East side) 06/09/74 Nos.26, 26A AND 26B (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) Nos.26 AND 26A)

GV II

House with hayloft, stables and coach house at rear; now shop, offices and restaurant. Late C18 front, reduced in height in 1930s, and with late C19 shop front; two C17 wings at rear and additional rear extension of 1866; late C20 alterations with flat topped dormers and fenestration. Front of gault-brick with plain tile hipped roof; rear wings brick on ground floor, plastered timber-frame on first floor; C19 extension of brick; pantile and concrete tiles to rear wings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 4-window front. Plate glass shop front to centre and right of ground floor with doorway to No.26A to left, and one unhorned sash window with 8/8 glazing bars at far left. Four similar first-floor sashes under gauged skewback arches. Plain parapet, formerly pierced by four windows, partly conceals 3 small flat-topped dormers fitted with casements. Right return has three sashes on first floor. Rear: wing of 2 storeys with dormer attic and mainly C20 replacement casements. Lower range of 2-storey service buildings now converted. INTERIOR: front block opened out as showroom. Some chamfered bridging beams with tongue stops. One early C20 staircase with spiral incised decoration to balusters; early C19 staircase with stick balusters and a ramped handrail. Timber-framed rear wings show jowled principal studs and in left wing is one wave-moulded bridging beam. Roofs plastered. Some C17 brick to extensive cellars, but mainly C19. (Saxmundham and District Local History Society: Saxmundham Old and New: Saxmundham: 1989-).

Listing NGR: TM3868963151

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Legacy System number:: 462138
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Saxmundham, , District Local History Society, , Saxmundham Old and New, (1989)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.