Dutch Flat Gosfield Cottage the Nutshell
217, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269740
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Dutch Flat Gosfield Cottage the Nutshell
- Statutory Address:
- 217, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-09-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/06869/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269740
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Dutch Flat Gosfield Cottage the Nutshell
- Statutory Address 1:
- 217, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- DUTCH FLAT, 217A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- GOSFIELD COTTAGE, 219, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 4:
- THE NUTSHELL, 219A, 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:
- 217, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- DUTCH FLAT, 217A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- GOSFIELD COTTAGE, 219, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE NUTSHELL, 219A, 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:
- Aldeburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM4641756239
Details
ALDEBURGH
TM4656 HIGH STREET
837-1/4/20 (West side)
16/08/74 Nos.217, 217A, 219, 219A
Dutch Flat (No.217A), Gosfield
Cottage (No.219) and The Nutshell
(No.219A)
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(West side)
Nos.217 AND 219)
GV II
Pair of houses, now four dwellings. Mid C18, altered in early
C19, subdivided in late C20. Colourwashed brick; pantile
roofs, hipped at front: ridge stack to No.219, side stack to
No.217. U-shaped on plan.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 1-window wings have lower 2-storey
extensions with crenellated parapets flanking central yard
screened by garden gates. Fronts mirror each other in reverse
with entrances in extensions, that to No.217 having a panelled
door, No.219 a C20 door: doorcases are of panelled pilasters
with cornices. On first floor, each extension has one 3/6
unhorned sash window. Earlier fronts have 8/8 unhorned sashes
on each floor, those on ground floor under segmental arches.
Returns to extensions are of different sizes and varying
detail, that to No.217 having a propped first floor resembling
a jetty.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TM4641756239
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460452
- 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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