The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, MITFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298587
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, MITFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298587
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, MITFORD 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 OLD HOUSE, MITFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Benhall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 37751 61260
Details
TM 36 SE BENHALL MITFORD ROAD (south side)
2/26 The Old House (formerly 25.10.51 listed as Old School House)
- II
Former school house, now a private dwelling. Dated 1736 on tablet above door; substantial early C20 alterations and additions. Red brick, plaintile roof. 2 storeys and attic. Original house: 5 window range, sashes with glazing bars in flush frames, flat brick arches. Central doorway with original stone panelled architrave and cornice supported on console brackets; C19 half-glazed door. Over the doorway is an inscribed stone tablet supported laterally by consoles and headed by a broken pediment on console brackets, within which is a cartouche. To right of entrance is another inscribed stone tablet dated 1829. Coved plaster cornice; later mansard roof with 3 flat-roofed dormers. Addition to left hand side with curved Dutch style gable: 2 storeys and attic, single window range, sashes with small panes; between this and the original house is a flat-roofed section with semi-circular headed windows at ground and first floor levels and a circular window above. Interior with fine C18 mantelpieces, apparently later importations. Boundary wall to south of house surmounted by carved stone consoles. The tablet above the door reads "Sr. Edward Duke Late of this Parish Baronet. having by his Will Bequeathed A Thousand Pounds for the Building of A School & Maintenance, for A Master for ye Time being, to Instruct the Poore Children belonging to this Parish to Read & Write, in Persuance there to, this House was Erected by Edmund Tyrell Esq. (only Executor of the Said Sir Edmund Duke) in ye Year of Our Lord 1736."
Listing NGR: TM3775161260
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 285087
- 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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