Chelsea Cottage
CHELSEA COTTAGE, POUND LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297918
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Chelsea Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHELSEA COTTAGE, POUND LANE
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- Date:
- 1999-08-20
- Reference:
- IOE01/00552/03
- Rights:
- © Mr George C Scott. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297918
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Chelsea Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHELSEA COTTAGE, POUND LANE
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:
- CHELSEA COTTAGE, POUND LANE
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 04855 59255
Details
STOWMARKET
TM05NW POUND LANE 614-1/2/102 (North West side) 28/07/50 Chelsea Cottage (Formerly Listed as: POUND LANE No.2 Chelsea Cottage)
GV II
House, used as smallpox isolation hospital 1678-1730, then house again. Mid C17, north-east bay added C20. Rendered and colourwashed timber-frame on brick plinth. Pantiled roof, concrete corrugated tiles to rear. Lobby entrance plan. 2 storeys and atticGabled porch added 1974. First floor with two 5-light and one 3-light C20 cross casements, first floor with 3 late C20 top-hung casements. Gabled roof with a ridge stack left of centre, but exactly centre before extra bay added. Rear with C20 additions and C20 fenestration. INTERIOR. Heavy scantling timber-frame with chamfered bridging beams. Open fireplaces. C20 staircase. (Double H: Stowmarket - A Book of Records: Stowmarket: 1983-: 162).
Listing NGR: TM0485559255
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384630
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Double, H, A Book of Records Stowmarket, (1983), 162
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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