Old School House
OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, PETTAUGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284037
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, PETTAUGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284037
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, PETTAUGH 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:
- OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, PETTAUGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stonham Aspal
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 14258 59246
Details
STONHAM ASPAL PETTAUGH ROAD TM 15 NW 5/182 Old School House - 9-12-55 - II
House, late C16 with alterations of early C17 and later. Originally of 2-cell end-chimney plan; the plan was "reversed" to 3-cell lobby-entrance form in C17. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered with cable-pattern pargetting restored in C20. Thatched roof, hipped at left hand end, with axial chimney of red brick. Mainly C20 casements. C20 boarded and battened entrance door with open lean-to pantiled porch on posts. The original C16 work has studwork with both arch and tension-bracing and a coupled-rafter roof. A chimney was placed in the cross-entry in C17; the service cell to left was given a new upper floor with an ovolo-moulded binding joist, to become the new parlour. Above the parlour fireplace is a mid or late C18 painting of a hunting scene painted directly onto the plaster, but covering a deep C17 painted frieze of chevrons. There are believed to be other sections of painted decoration now concealed. The service cell to right is higher and of C18 workmanship, but with possible earlier core. The single-storey brick and glazed pantiled roofed service wing to front right is mainly of early C19, but with an earlier timber-framed core. In 1612, the Revd. John Metcalf, (rector of this parish) bequeathed this house, then called Smiths "for a schoolmaster, to teach freely the youth of Stonham and Pettaugh".
Listing NGR: TM1425859246
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279433
- 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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