Little Manor
LITTLE MANOR, THWAITE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287894
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Little Manor
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE MANOR, THWAITE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287894
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Little Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE MANOR, THWAITE ROAD
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:
- LITTLE MANOR, THWAITE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorndon
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 13176 69795
Details
THORNDON THWAITE ROAD TM 16 NW 3/107 Little Manor (formerly listed as Red House and 29.7.55 under Standwell Green) - II Former farmhouse. First half of C16 with early C17 alterations. Timber framed and plastered with a pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. Continuous jetty to front. 3-cell form with later rear service wing to left. 5 windows, late C19 coupled 4-pane and single 6-paned sashes. Lobby entrance: C19 half- glazed door. Internal stack with 2 detached sawtooth-pattern shafts, that to the left rebuilt; linked caps. External stack on left gable end has brick dated 1828. Rear wing has brackets to ends of wallplates (concealed by later addition). Some good framing visible internally, notably the close-studded former outside wall (now within a later rear addition) with herringbone brick nogging. The nogging shows evidence for original colourwashing and lining of the joints. Rear wall has 2 original windows with chamfered mullions and one ovolo-mullioned window of c.1600 with early leaded glass. Hall has axial bridging beam and closely-spaced chamfered joists. No evidence for studded partition between hall and service end. Evidence for partial axial partition within service area. Parlour has good 4-division panelled plaster ceiling of early C17 date, and the remains of a contemporary fireplace with wide depressed brick arch. In rear wall of parlour, a wide segmental-arched keyed opening with reeded jambs leads into a C18 addition. Roof over hall and service end is of clasped purlin form, with arched wind braces. Over the parlour this roof has been replaced by one of early C17 butt purlin form, the C16 rafters turned over and re-used. Rear wing has some heavy C16 framing but has been partially rebuilt, perhaps to make it wider. Roof of butt purlin form, with a ridge piece, perhaps of c.1700.
Listing NGR: TM1317669795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281388
- 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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