Priors Close
PRIORS CLOSE, THE CAUSEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284750
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Priors Close
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORS CLOSE, THE CAUSEWAY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284750
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Priors Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORS CLOSE, THE CAUSEWAY
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:
- PRIORS CLOSE, THE CAUSEWAY
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:
- TL 99983 71050
Details
TL 97 SE WALSHAM LE WILLOWS THE CAUSEWAY (EAST SIDE)
2/30 Priors Close
15/11/54
GV II
House. C16 core; mid 018 extensions and facade. Timber-framed and rendered; plaintiles. 2 storeys and attics. 2 plain red brick chimney stacks set externally on the end walls. Wood modillion cornice. 3 gabled dormers with fluted bargeboards, spike finials, and 2-light casement windows with old square-leaded panes. 5 windows to first floor, and 4 similar, but deeper, to ground floor, all 2-light casements with square-leaded panes. Centrally-placed Edwardian half-glazed double doors. An open veranda with glazed roof along the whole ground floor front. 3 bays of C16 framing remain within the house: to the left of the central entrance is a truss with chamfered main beam and posts, both with run-off stops, and above it a heavy cambered tie-beam with arched braces removed; further to the left, another truss has arched braces in situ. Above it, in the attic, there is a marked change of floor levels. Both ends of the house were extended to give it the present symmetrical Georgian form. All the roof-timbers are covered. A timber-framed wing of indeterminate date at the rear.
Listing NGR: TL9998371050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281775
- 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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