The Long Shop

THE LONG SHOP, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1287610
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1976
List Entry Name:
The Long Shop
Statutory Address:
THE LONG SHOP, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1287610
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:
The Long Shop
Statutory Address 1:
THE LONG SHOP, MAIN 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE LONG SHOP, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Leiston
National Grid Reference:
TM 44385 62595

Details

TM 46 SW LEISTON-CUM-SIZEWELL MAIN STREET 4/37 The Long Shop (formerly listed as The Long Shop (formerly part of the premises of Richard Garrett Limited) 14.10.76

GV II*

Built as a workshop in 1853 for the manufacture of portable steam engines; now under restoration as a museum. Red brick with yellow brick dressings; pantile roof with 3 louvred ventilators at ridge level. Timber bell-turret at the east end. 2-storeys. 9 bays long (the centre one wider than the others) and 3 bays wide. The east end tripartite with central square headed entrance and arched windows, that above the entrance longer than the 4 in the outer bays and with a clock face in the gable above. The west end similar but altered and without a clock. The side windows all segmental-headed. All windows with iron glazing bars and set back within the wall surface which thus appears pilastered. The interior has fitters' galleries at first floor level leaving an open central well.

Listing NGR: TM4442562640

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Legacy System number:
401763
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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