Clock House
CLOCK HOUSE, CLOCKHOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284270
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Clock House
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK HOUSE, CLOCKHOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284270
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Clock House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOCK HOUSE, CLOCKHOUSE LANE
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:
- CLOCK HOUSE, CLOCKHOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stonham Parva
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 11491 61189
Details
LITTLE STONHAM CLOCKHOUSE LANE TM 16 SW 2/131 Clock House 9.12.55 - II*
Former farmhouse. Mid or late C15 with major alterations of c.1600. An open- hall house with service cross-wing to right; the parlour cell remodelled and extended in cross-wing form in c.1600. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roofs; at both gables the C19 bargeboards have spike finials. Various windows: late C18 or early C19 small-pane sashes; in the right-hand wing early C20 small-pane casements. A chamber window of c.1600 has ovolo-mullions with old diamond leaded glazing. Early C19 6-panelled entrance door; reeded architrave with paterae, and simple cornice. Plaintiled roofs; a fine chimney of c.1600, the square plinth of random yellow and red bricks. Four shafts with moulded octagonal bases of yellow brick; 3 are circular with moulded terracotta panels impressed with roses or fleurs-de-lys, the 4th octagonal (and perhaps rebuilt) in red brick. All shafts have oversailing octagonal caps. The 2-bay open hall has high-quality carpentry: an open truss has a cambered arch-braced tie beam with ogee-and-cavetto moulding, the octagonal crownpost has a moulded capital and base and 4-way knee-braces. The roof is fully exposed. Good close-studding. The cross-wing is in 3 bays, originally having twin service rooms. The chamber above (later subdivided) has open trusses with cross-quadrate type crownposts with 2-way bracing. The original parlour-cell had an in-line roof, hipped or half- hipped. The central chimney of c.1600 has back-to-back fireplaces with ovolo- moulded plastered arched heads. The chamber over the parlour has a fine early C17 coved plaster ceiling, with ribbed geometrical panels, friezes, and central pendants and other motifs all in high relief; despite being incomplete this is one of the richest examples of its type in Suffolk. A good contemporary plastered overmantel in the adjacent room. Other early C17 features include wainscotting in the cross-passage, a 2-storey bay-window with ovolo-moulded mullions and a moulded gable tie-beam, and painted leaf designs in a 1st floor corridor. Suffolk Houses: Sandon: 1977.
Listing NGR: TM1149161189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279382
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sandon, E, Suffolk Houses: A Study of Domestic Architecture, (1977)
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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