The Old Dower House
THE OLD DOWER HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284940
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Dower House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD DOWER HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284940
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Dower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD DOWER HOUSE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD DOWER HOUSE, SCHOOL ROAD
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 OLD DOWER HOUSE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD DOWER HOUSE, SCHOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coddenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 13377 54287
Details
CODDENHAM HIGH STREET TM 1354 8/17 The Old Dower House - (formerly listed with Gryffon 9-12-55 House as Crown Inn) GV II
House, early or mid C16 with alterations of C18 and later. Part of the winter house built for the Woodhouse family of nearby Crowfield Hall (see also Items 8/18 and 8/19). 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered on a high plinth of tarred brick. Hipped plaintiled roof with gabled plaintiled dormers and an axial chimney of red brick. Late C18 small-pane sashes. A slightly set- forward block has a good early C18 staircase window with semi-circular head and thick glazing bars. Late C18 or early C19 6-panelled entrance door with flat cantilevered canopy. The front parlour is of unusually rhomboid plan to give a frontage parallel with School Road. The range was originally jettied on two consecutive sides. 1st floor joists and beams are well roll-moulded; wide open fireplace with moulded lintel, above it being C17 moulded plaster animal figures - one being a lion, the others badly disfigured. The chamber above has moulded beams and beside the fireplace is an altered original garderobe of brick. A small parlour has good and unusual C17 wall painting of a repeated strapwork design in pink, which survives almost entirely on 3 walls. The external walls were raised and a new roof built in C18. An early C18 staircase, remodelled or perhaps replicated in early C20. From 1603 to 1625, the house became the Gryffon Inn.
Listing NGR: TM1337754287
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279265
- 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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