Ponderosa Post Office Cottage
PONDEROSA, TANNERY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1284144
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Statutory Address:
- PONDEROSA, TANNERY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1284144
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jan-1988
- Statutory Address 1:
- PONDEROSA, TANNERY ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- POST OFFICE COTTAGE, TANNERY ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PONDEROSA, TANNERY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE COTTAGE, TANNERY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Combs
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0432756409
Details
COMBS TANNERY ROAD
TM 05 NW
Post Office Cottage and Ponderosa
2/97 (formerly listed as cottages
9.12.55 immediately north of the Post Office
GV II*
Two houses, built as one farmhouse. The main range comprises an open hall of
late C14 or c.1400; the adjoining parlour cross-wing to left was added in late
C16. Timber-framed and roughcast. Plaintiled roof, with one gabled casement
dormer to main range. An axial late C16 chimney of red brick with 3 tall
diagonally-set square shafts is at the junction of the two ranges. Various
C19 and C20 casements. A C20 flush entrance door. The cross-wing, of 2
storeys and attics, has an oversailing gable tie-beam at back and front, well-
carved with a running design in the late C16 manner; at the front is a pair of
bargeboards with good vinescroll carving. The 2-bay open hall probably has a
high survival of early features, but these were mainly concealed at date of
survey. The open truss has a moulded cambered tie-beam with concealed arch-
braces; an octagonal crownpost has a moulded capital and thick 4-way braces.
Good quality close-studding. A splayed and tabled scarf joint with an edge
key in the rear wall plate indicates high quality carpentry and a 14th century
construction date, and demonstrates the early introduction of close-studding
in central Suffolk. A first floor was inserted into the hall in mid C16:
massive main beams, with broach-stopped chamfers. A storeyed cell to right was
replaced by a lean-to extension in C19. A lean-to extension to left is
separately occupied and is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: TM0432756409
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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