Laundry Cottage
LAUNDRY COTTAGE, LAUNDRY LANE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285166
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Laundry Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LAUNDRY COTTAGE, LAUNDRY LANE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2003-05-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/10673/22
- Rights:
- © Mr Edward Erbes. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285166
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Laundry Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAUNDRY COTTAGE, LAUNDRY LANE
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:
- LAUNDRY COTTAGE, LAUNDRY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornham Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 09852 71327
Details
THORNHAM MAGNA LAUNDRY LANE (EAST SIDE) TM 07 SE 2/73 Laundry Cottage - - II
House. c.1500, floor inserted and extended or part rebuilt c.1600, raised late C17, extended or part rebuilt C19, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched glazed pantiled roof. Brick and red pantiled additions. A small 2 bay open hall with parlour and stack added, possibly replacing an upper cross wing; raised to appear as a 3 cell lobby entry plan, C19 service bay replaces earlier service end. 2 storeys and attics. C19 lobby entrance to left of centre in a C20 gabled porch, C20 3-light glazing bar casements, first floor C19 hoodmoulds. Rebuilt ridge stack between hall and parlour to left of centre. Left end attic 5-light diamond mullioned window, pentice boards, exposed plates and purlins. On right end is a lower 2 storey C19 service bay above which are exposed plates and purlins and an attic light. To rear an added continuous lean-to outshut, red pantiles, a central C20 gabled projection, above lean-to a restored 5-light diamond mullioned window. Interior: screens passage retains parts of 4 centred arched door heads, 2 doorways to service end originally, hall has exposed straight bracing halved over studs, inserted ogee stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and joists, parts remain of original tall 6-light diamond mullioned hall windows, 2-light opening over screens passage, arched bracing in walls, original open truss has chamfered arched braces to a cut cambered tie beam with a crown post mortice, upper end of hall has fragmentary sections of timber suggesting an original cross wing, C17 roof has collars and halved principals clasping purlins. Parlour has close studding, stop chamfered axial binding beam, joists and mid- rail, first floor straight arched bracing in walls, stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, 2-light diamond mullioned window opening in stack bay, lower butt purlins and upper collars to clasped purlins with straight windbraces.
Listing NGR: TM0985171325
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279529
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 25-Jun-2026 at 17:36:49.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.