Step House
STEP HOUSE, HOCKEY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284605
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Step House
- Statutory Address:
- STEP HOUSE, HOCKEY HILL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07566/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284605
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Step House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEP HOUSE, HOCKEY HILL
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:
- STEP HOUSE, HOCKEY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 12683 66646
Details
WETHERINGSETT-CUM-BROCKFORD HOCKEY HILL TM 16 NW 3/123 - Step House
-- II Former farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. C15 hall range to right, early C17 parlour block to left, replacing medieval work. Late C17 service range at rear. Timber framed and rendered. Service range has C18 red brick gable end. Parlour block is roofed with asbestos slates, the remainder with concrete pantiles. 1½-storey hall range and rear wing, parlour block 2 storeys with former attic. Small-paned casement windows of C20. Boarded and plank doors, that to the right in the original cross-entry. One raking dormer to right. Stack at junction of the 2 front ranges, most of the shaft rendered. Interior. Hall range has partly exposed studding with reversed braces. Intact open truss over former open hall, now in partition wall between the 2 dwellings: slightly cambered tie beam with curved braces meeting at centre; plain octagonal crown-post with 2-way bracing. All roof timbers are heavily sooted. Service partition shows evidence for arched doorways. At rear of service cell is a solid-tread stair, probably the original re-positioned and an important survival. C17 inserted floor in hall, the main beam with nicked ogee stop-chamfers. Parlour has heavy plain studding with no visible bracing. Lower ceiling has axial beam with nicked ogee stops and chamfered joists. Plain joists in upper room. Butt purlin roof with 2-way straight plank wind bracing. Many re-used C15 and C16 components in rear wing.
Listing NGR: TM1268366646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281708
- 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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