Lamb House
LAMB HOUSE, 2, POTTER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276664
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Lamb House
- Statutory Address:
- LAMB HOUSE, 2, POTTER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276664
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lamb House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAMB HOUSE, 2, POTTER 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:
- LAMB HOUSE, 2, POTTER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sible Hedingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 78375 33437
Details
TL 7833 SIBLE HEDINGHAM POTTER STREET (west side) 11/280 No. 2(Lamb House) 21 6 62 (Formerly listed as Swaynes)
GV II
House. C16 or earlier. Timber framed and plastered. Red plain tiled roofs. Two red brick chimney stacks, that to right external stepped. Two storey gabled crosswing to left with pentice board to jetty. One storey and attic, main range with central gabled dormer and C18/C19 four windows to ground floor, of which two are oriels with small paned casements and two vertically sliding sashes. A similar sash to crosswing first floor. The right return fronts Lamb Lane, with six windows and a vertically boarded door with light. The right of this return with an incorporated red brick and plaster gabled wing with two small vertically boarded doors at first floor level.
Listing NGR: TL7837533437
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408771
- 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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