Numbers 23 the Green and 1 the Street

1, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1284043
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Numbers 23 the Green and 1 the Street
Statutory Address:
1, THE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1284043
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Numbers 23 the Green and 1 the Street
Statutory Address 1:
1, THE STREET
Statutory Address 2:
23, THE GREEN

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1, THE STREET
Statutory Address:
23, THE GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet
National Grid Reference:
TM 48513 97377

Details

TM 49 NE
4/42

SOMERLEYTON
THE GREEN
No 23

GV
II

Originally 3 estate cottages, now 2. Circa 1850. Yellow brick, the slightly
projecting upper floor with mid C20 smooth render and applied timbering.
Thatched roof. Picturesque style. Symmetrical about the corner: a square
corner block with chamfered angles and conical roof, to which are attached by
short links 2 wings with half-hipped gables. 2 storeys. Mullion and transom
casement windows with segmental arches in pale yellow brick; the original lead
lattice cames only remain in the upper part of each light. One doorway is
placed on the corner, with half-hipped open timber porch. 2 other doorways in
the side walls of the wings have been blocked but the porches remain. 2
stacks with grouped flues and a single flue at the apex of the corner block.
Part of the model village of estate workers' cottages built around the green
for Sir Morton Peto to the designs of John Thomas. Includes No.1 The Street.

Listing NGR: TM4851397377

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
282393
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.

Ordnance survey map of Numbers 23 the Green and 1 the Street

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