KING WILLIAM COTTAGE THE POST OFFICE

KING WILLIAM COTTAGE, THE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298945
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: KING WILLIAM COTTAGE THE POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: KING WILLIAM COTTAGE, THE STREET

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Date:: 2004-05-17
Reference:: IOE01/12045/13
Rights:: © Mr Richard Storey. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298945
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: KING WILLIAM COTTAGE THE POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: KING WILLIAM COTTAGE, THE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: THE POST OFFICE, THE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: KING WILLIAM COTTAGE, THE STREET
Statutory Address:: THE POST OFFICE, THE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Horringer
National Grid Reference:: TL 82589 61884

Details

TL 86 SW HORRINGER THE STREET

2/71 The Post Office and King William Cottage

II

House, now 2 houses; mid C16 with various extensions. Originally 3-cell lobby-entrance plan; 2 storeys and attics; 4 windows. Timber-framed, rendered. Thatched roof, hipped at left-hand, service, end; gable and axial chimneys of red brick. 2- and 3-light C18 and C19 windows, some with leaded casements, some with small-pane wrought iron casements. Early C19 6-panelled entrance door with painted brick slated gabled entrance porch. An arched doorway from hall to service room, now blocked. Clasped purlin roof. Further service room added at left-hand end, with hipped roof, C.1600. Similarly, further parlour bay added to right hand end c.1700.

Listing NGR: TL8259461885

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 363146
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.