North Cottage Widows Nest
NORTH COTTAGE, SHOP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287684
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- North Cottage Widows Nest
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH COTTAGE, SHOP STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287684
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- North Cottage Widows Nest
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH COTTAGE, SHOP STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WIDOWS NEST, SHOP 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:
- NORTH COTTAGE, SHOP STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WIDOWS NEST, SHOP STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Worlingworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 21666 68550
Details
WORLINGWORTH SHOP STREET TM 26 NW 5/129 North Cottage, Widows - Nest GV II House. C16; early C20 one-storey addition to east. Under renovation at time of survey (June 1987). A 2-cell addition to the parlour end of the range to the south (qv. Item 5/128), perhaps a shop or-workshop. Timber framed and plastered, pantiled roof. 2 storeys. Casement windows of 1987; door removed at time of survey. C18 stack against north gable end. Intact 2-bay frame, some of the studding closely-spaced. Reverse-curved braces at the corners. One original first floor window with chamfered mullions. In north west corner of south bay is part of an arched external doorway. The gable end, which faces the road, had a jettied upper floor and a further jetty to the gable; all supporting brackets survive, together with drop finials at the foot of the gable. This end has evidence for a projecting first floor window with chamfered mullions and for a large ground floor window, although the frame on the ground floor no longer survives. On the upper floor the former outside gable end wall has C17 stippled plasterwork with an interesting and well- preserved pargetted design. There is quoining around the window, a large flowerhead to each side and below the window a shield with the initials 'BA'. Plain floor joists in both cells, that to the south with unchamfered axial bridging beam, set off-centre. Evidence for stairtrap in north cell, now blocked. No evidence for original heating. Roof has a single row of clasped purlins with curved wind braces.
Listing NGR: TM2166668550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281410
- 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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