Guildhall
GUILDHALL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287814
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address:
- GUILDHALL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287814
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Guildhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUILDHALL, CHURCH 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:
- GUILDHALL, CHURCH 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:
- TM2342168778
Details
TM 26 NW
5/116
29.7.55
WORLINGWORTH
CHURCH STREET
Guildhall ( formerly listed as Guildhall Cottages)
II
Former guildhall, subsequently parish workhouse and then cottages; now a
single dwelling. Circa 1500. Timber framed and plastered with thatched roof.
2 storeys and attics. Jettied gable end to left, largely obscured by lean-to
addition. 5 windows, mainly C18 3-light casements without glazing bars. 2
doorways with mid C20 plank and 6-panel doors. 3 flat-roofed dormers with old
2-light windows. Internal stack and gable stack to right, both with cross-
axial shafts. The frame is in 5 bays. There was a single 4-bay room on each
floor, with one-bay rooms at the west end (ground floor) and east end (first
floor). The cross-partition on the ground floor has been lost but evidence
for 2 doorways survives in the girding beam. Heavy bridging beams with solid
arched braces to the wallposts; exposed joists on ground floor, mostly
replaced by material brought from elsewhere. First floor has largely intact
plain studding with evidence for original windows with square mullions; 2 deep
sills for oriel windows. Heavy arched braces to the tie beams. The wallplate
has very short edge-halved and bridled scarf joints. In the east gable end is
the lintol of a former C16 fireplace, the associated stack largely replaced in
C18. East bay has C17 ceiling with plain joists set flat. The pitchpine
floors in the other bays date from c.1750 when the workhouse conversion was
made. The internal stack is also an C18 insertion. Queen-post roof, with
curved tension braces from the jowled head of each post to the end of the tie
beam. There are slo king-posts, springing from the tie beams and halved over
the collars, braced to a substantial ridge-piece.
Listing NGR: TM2342168778
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281397
- 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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