The Lawn
THE LAWN, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284603
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Lawn
- Statutory Address:
- THE LAWN, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284603
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Lawn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LAWN, WEST 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:
- THE LAWN, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walsham-le-Willows
- National Grid Reference:
- TL9906771143
Details
TL 97 SE
2/86
WALSHAM LE WILLOWS
WEST STREET
The Lawn
GV
II
House. Mainly C18 and C19, with an early C17 core. Timber-framed and
rendered front, formerly with applied mock-timbering; facing and extensions in
early C19 white brick to rear; plaintiles. 2 storeys and attics; complex
form, with 2 wings of different dates projecting from the front, both with
pierced and fluted barge-boards and spike finials; the left wing is a cross-
wing projecting also to the rear; it has an overhanging tie-beam supported by
brackets on the front. An external stack of old red brick on the left gable
has 2 high barrel shafts moulded at cap and base; a similar stack on the right
gable has 4 barrel shafts with moulded caps and bases. Beyond it, a 2-storey
C19 extension with coloured brick on the ground floor and render above; panels
of pargetting on the gable end; black glazed pantiles. The main range between
the wings is high, and may have been raised, but all framing is concealed
inside. Old casement windows to front, most 3-light with transomes and
horizontal glazing-bars; some 2-light. An enclosed gabled porch with entrance
door has pierced and fluted bargeboards and finial matching the gables.
Garden front with 2 wide full-height canted bays with conical roofs and 3 sash
windows to each storey, 6-pane above, 12-pane below. To the left, a wide
rectangular flat-roofed bay has deep small-paned sash windows and glazed
French doors with a traceried oblong fanlight: 2 6-pane sash windows above,
and another over the entrance door between the bays: half-glazed recessed door
with fanlight and timber surround in semi-circular arched opening. Most of
interior reflects the early C19 phase of the house, but the left cross-wing
has a C17 core: one ground floor room has an ovolo-moulded main beam with
scroll stops. C18 roof over the main range: 2 rows of stepped butt purlins,
rafters on edge, ridge-piece with applied saddles.
Listing NGR: TL9906771143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281831
- 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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