The Gables
THE GABLES, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285872
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables
- Statutory Address:
- THE GABLES, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285872
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GABLES, THE 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:
- THE GABLES, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Bergholt
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 06958 34733
Details
TM 0634 EAST BERGHOLT THE STREET (West Side)
6/70 The Gables
22.2.55
- II*
House. Late C16 with probable early C16 rear wing to hall range and later rear range to cross wing. C19 additions to rear. Renovated 1970s. Timber-framed, part rendered. C19 sections in painted brick. Plain tile roof. Red brick stacks. Two storeys, attic to front range. Hall with jettied cross wing to left with attached gabled ranges to rear. C19 extensions in Tudor style. Front range: close studding. C20 Tudor-arched entrance under hood adjacent to cross wing. C20 mullion and transom windows with mullioned side lights, largely in original openings throughout. C20 moulded bressummer to first floor. Cross wing has C20 oriel window with mullioned side lights. Jettied first floor with moulded bressummer. Similar first floor window and 5-light mullion window to jettied gable with moulded bressummer, C19 bargeboards and finial. Swept roof. Paired octagonal ridge stacks to rear. Left return underbuilt in painted brick. Range to rear of hall slightly lower. Close studding. Restored mullion windows. Large ridge stack adjacent to front range with 6 octagonal shafts. Range to rearof cross wing rendered with large C20 stair window. Interior: front range, moulded beams and exposed joists. Chamfered brick Tudor-arched fireplace to hall flanked by Tudor-arched doorwlays to rear wing. Further chamfered basket-arched fireplace to cross wing. Rear wing: inglenook with chamfered bressummer. Studded walls, moulded beams and joists. Probably inserted C17 panelling. 5-light ovolo mullion window to original rear wall now backing onto stair hall. Stair hall range: studded rear wall of cross wing with C20 painted decoration exposed in stair hall. C20 staircase. First floor: chamfered beams and exposed joists. Fireplace with painted basket arch with ovolo moulding in chamfered square surround with stepped stops. Similar fireplace to rear wall of cross wing which has probably inserted C17 panelling with cornice and some strapwork panels. Rear range has C20 replica crown post roof. Clasped purlin roof with wind braces to front range. Several moulded and studded plank doors. Small chamfered basket-arched fireplace to attic of cross wing. Extensively renovated and restored 1970s, the house contains several other imported features.
Listing NGR: TM0695834733
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278778
- 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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