21 AND 22, CHAPEL LANE

21 AND 22, CHAPEL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1285821
Date first listed:
07-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
21 AND 22, CHAPEL LANE
Statutory Address:
21 AND 22, CHAPEL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1285821
Date first listed:
07-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
21 AND 22, CHAPEL LANE
Statutory Address 1:
21 AND 22, CHAPEL 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
21 AND 22, CHAPEL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Belstead
National Grid Reference:
TM1322841215

Details

TM 14 SW
2/9

BELSTEAD
CHAPEL LANE
Nos 21 and 22

II

House, divided in two. C16 of various builds, C18, 1801, extended C20. Timber
framed, some exposed, but mostly rendered, brick, mostly plaintile roofs, some
slate and shingle. Complex plan. No 22, 2 bays, 2 storeys, long wall jettied on
both sides, extended in brick 1801 and later. No 21, L plan 2 storeys the
earlier wing added at right angles to No 22, partly enclosing it, the later
(kitchen, bathroom) wing completing the block. No 22 exposed close studding to
first floor, rendered ground floor, plaintile roofs, gabletted at northern end.
Ground floor single and 2-light leaded glazed timber casements. Similar 2-light
first floor opening. Small opening to return. 2 similar windows and boarded
door to single storey 1801 brick wing. Axial stack between the two builds,
external stack dated 1801 to northernmost gable. Interior. Ground floor
extended by a few feet beyond former closed truss, into No 21. Thinner scantling
timbers, brick party wall. Shutter grooves to former windows each side. Window,
formerly a doorway, has surviving hinge. Horizontal joists narrow jowelled posts,
chamfered tie beam. First floor shutter grooves. Wind braced clasped purlin
roof. No 21 L plan. 2, 2 bay 2 storey wings. The east-west wing with hipped
and gabletted roof, crossed by north-south wing with hipped roof to south, gabled
to north. South face. Ground floor C20 extension with 3-light window and added
porch obscure original surface. 4 small first floor openings, 2 to each build,
single casements, one a C20 insertion above stairs. Left hand return, thin
external-stack. 2 small inserted ground floor openings, 2-light first floor
timber casement. The casement beneath the exposed jetty is part of No 22. Right
hand return, scattered C20 casements. Rear, part external stack rises from
single storey extension housing former deep chimney and oven. Interior.
East-west wing has close studded frame, chamfered beams, horizontal joists.
Inserted and altered openings. Arch braced tie beam supporting wind braced
roof. North-south wing roof of thinner scantling.

Listing NGR: TM1322841215

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
277387
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.

Ordnance survey map of 21 AND 22, CHAPEL LANE

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