Crutched Friars
CRUTCHED FRIARS, SUDBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278635
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Crutched Friars
- Statutory Address:
- CRUTCHED FRIARS, SUDBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278635
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Crutched Friars
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRUTCHED FRIARS, SUDBURY ROAD
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:
- CRUTCHED FRIARS, SUDBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Whelnetham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 88711 58748
Details
TL 85 NE LT. WELNETHAM SUUBURY RUAD
5/120 Crutched Friars Friars (Formerly listed as Chapel 14.7.55 Hill Farmhouse under General)
II
House, formerly the priory of about 5 brothers of the Order of the Holy Cross of Welnetham, known as the Crutched Friars (founded c.1274, suppressed c.1536); c.1500, altered C16 and early C20. 2 storeys and attics. U-plan; timber- framed on the inward-facing sides of the U with plastered panels between exposed framing, the upper floor long-wall jettied. The outward-facing walls of red brick with areas of diaper-patterning in blue headers; crow-stepped gables with reset terracotta tiles having various motifs. Plaintiled roofs with gabled plaintiled dormers. Massive external chimneys of red brick. Windows with 3- and 4-centred arched heads, (some hood-moulded), moulded brick jambs and mullions; heavily restored early C20, with metal casements. 4 small 1 dormitory windows with trefoiled heads on the east side. Timber-framed cloister arcade on the inward-facing sides with 4-centred arches; infilled and glazed C16, restored C20. The central range of the U-plan was originally a narrow link between 2 short and equal ranges (the west range truncated C20); a narrow cloister, now altered, ran round the small court, linking with the flint-walled chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr on its north side, of which only a buttress remains at the north-east corner of the house. The present queen- post roof is probably a C16 rebuilding. A red brick and plain-tiled 1 storey extension on the south side, c.1970.
Listing NGR: TL8871158748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404994
- 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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