Nelsons Cottage Rosebank Side Cottage
NELSONS COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283789
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nelsons Cottage Rosebank Side Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- NELSONS COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283789
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nelsons Cottage Rosebank Side Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- NELSONS COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- ROSEBANK, LOWER STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- SIDE COTTAGE, LOWER 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:
- NELSONS COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- ROSEBANK, LOWER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SIDE COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 04244 33932
Details
TM 0433 STRATFORD ST MARY LOWER STREET (west side) 6/33 Rosebank, Nelsons Cottage - and Side Cottage GV II 3 cottages, probably originally one house. Probable C15 origins with C16-C17 alterations and early C19 front range of Rosebank. Timber-framed, rendered, plain tile roofs. Front range with 2 cross wings projecting at rear, left section of front range rebuilt or refronted early C19. 2 storeys. Rosebank: early C19 front range, 2 bays. 6-panel door with overlight in pilastered doorcase to right. 16-pane renewed sash to left and 12-pane sashes in reveals with sills above. Stack to left gable. Rear range at lower level has steeply-pitched swept roof and saw-tooth stack. Nelsons and Side Cottages: 3-window front with single-storey extension to right with C19 shop window. Central C20 glazed door with jamb lights set in painted brick. 3 and 5-light casements. Coved eaves, swept roof, gableted at right (Side Cottage). Rear cross wing of Rosebank gabled, that of Side Cottage gableted. Large stepped stack, rebuilt in part, rises through catslide roof over later extension of Nelsons. Interior: rear range of Rosebank apparently 2 builds. Frame partly exposed, jowled post with arch brace to tie beam, studded walls. Contains basket-arched fireplace. Nelsons apparently later C16, slightly higher than cross wings as shown by framing members at higher level than those of cross wings exposed to end partition walls. Partition wall with Side Cottage contains section of trefoil door head to ground floor and shows base of post (crown post?) supported by tie beam to 1st floor. Studded walls. Inglenook with chamfered jambs and bressummer to ground floor, basket-arched fireplace above. 3-bay clasped purlin roof. Interior Side Cottage not inspected.
Listing NGR: TM0424433932
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277232
- 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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