26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH STREET
26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268193
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268193
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, 26A AND 26B, HIGH 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.
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462138
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saxmundham, , District Local History Society, , Saxmundham Old and New, (1989)
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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