Walnut Tree Cottages
WALNUT TREE COTTAGES, 35 AND 37, OLD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284990
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- WALNUT TREE COTTAGES, 35 AND 37, OLD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284990
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALNUT TREE COTTAGES, 35 AND 37, OLD 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:
- WALNUT TREE COTTAGES, 35 AND 37, OLD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Haughley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 02757 62176
Details
HAUGHLEY OLD STREET (NORTH SIDE) TM 0262
8/101 Nos.35 and 37, Walnut - Tree Cottages (formerly listed as Walnut Tree 9/12/55 Cottage (pair)) GV II
Two houses; built as one, c.1530. 3-cell plan. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered, the upper floor is long-wall jettied towards the street with chamfered brackets beneath. All have had pilaster shafts with carved capitals, and there remain two exposed, one at either end. No.35 has a thatched roof, No.37 is plaintiled. An axial late C16 chimney of narrow red bricks. C18 and C19 casements, those at ground storey with transomes. No.35 has the original cross-entry doorway, with a chamfered 4-centred arched head. Plaintiled C20 lean-to porch; its supporting posts are probably of C16 origin with curved brackets at the head, and may come from an earlier porch in the same position. No.37 has a C20 glazed panelled door. There is some good framing exposed internally: double-ogee moulded main beams in the hall, close- studding with arch and tension wind-bracing combined, and open trusses with arch braces of 4-centred arch form. The late C16 chimney was placed in the earlier cross-entry.
Listing NGR: TM0275762176
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280584
- 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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