The Limes
THE LIMES, 27, IPSWICH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292946
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES, 27, IPSWICH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292946
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES, 27, IPSWICH 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:
- THE LIMES, 27, IPSWICH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stowmarket
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 05165 58313
Details
STOWMARKET
TM0558 IPSWICH ROAD 614-1/4/66 (East side) 28/07/50 No.27 The Limes
II
House. C16, with mid C18 facade and flanking additions north and south of early C19. Timber-framed, plastered and whitewashed. Plain tile roofs. Plan is of the front range and older rear cross wings at right-angles. Facade of 2 storeys and dormer attic in 5 bays with a central 6-panelled and fielded door under a Y-tracery fanlight. Simple porch with Tuscan columns. Two 6/6 sashes either side and 5 to the first floor. Modillion eaves cornice below the bell-based gabled roof. 3 gabled dormers with leaded 2-light casements. External gable end stacks north and south. Abutting the north and south gables are single-storey brick extensions of the early C19. Doorway under arched head to north, intersecting Gothick arched window to south. REAR WING south front has two 2-light C20 ground-floor casements and 2 V-shaped projecting C20 casements above. Gabled roof with ridge stack. Outshut to north side of this wing. Rear of main front block with a staircase tower added c1730, and a privy tower added to that. INTERIOR. Main front room has bolection-moulded fireplace with Delft tiles. Closed string staircase in its tower c1740: turned balusters, ramped handrail and dado panelling. Many HL hinges to doors. Panelling in rear ground-floor room is of 1920s. Rear wing with heavy plain-chamfered bridging beams and C19 4-panelled doors to ground floor, but C18 2-panel doors to the first floor. Frame with C17 principal studs and chamfered tie beams. Blocked mullioned window at first floor. Roof of 2 tiers staggered butt purlins and collars, replaced probably c1740. The front range of this building is widely reported to be 1701-2, but no evidence found. (Double H: Stowmarket - A Book of Records: Stowmarket: 1983-: P.115).
Listing NGR: TM0516558313
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384593
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Double, H, A Book of Records Stowmarket, (1983), 115
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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