Red House
RED HOUSE, 1 AND 1B, LAMBSETH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316550
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Red House
- Statutory Address:
- RED HOUSE, 1 AND 1B, LAMBSETH STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-07-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/08498/31
- Rights:
- © Mr A. C. A Seinet. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316550
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Red House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED HOUSE, 1 AND 1B, LAMBSETH STREET
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:
- RED HOUSE, 1 AND 1B, LAMBSETH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eye
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 14489 73906
Details
EYE
TM1473 LAMBSETH STREET 585-1/7/101 (West side) 20/10/71 Nos.1 AND 1B Red House (Formerly Listed as: LAMBSETH STREET (West side) No.1 Red House)
GV II
House, now 2 houses, formerly house and surgery. Plastered and whitewashed timber-framed rear wing c1600, early C19 red brick front range to street. Composition roof to front, black-glazed pantiles to rear wing. EXTERIOR: facade of 2 storeys cut down from 3 storeys mid C20. 8-window range. 6-panelled and fielded door in sixth bay (from left) within plain timber doorcase with hood on brackets. Door reached by double flight of steps with cast-iron railings. The window on both floors immediately right of door is blind, with painted glazing bars. Fenestration otherwise of 6/6 unhorned sashes beneath flat skewback arches of herringbone gault brick. Flat roof with two truncated stacks. Attached to south gable is a single-storey late C19 extension (No.1B, formerly surgery) lit through three 2/2 horned sashes and entered through a 4-panelled door reached by flight of steps with cast-iron railings. Gabled 2-storey rear wing fitted with mixed C19 and C20 casements. Internal gable-end stack to west. INTERIOR: wide entrance hall with boxed bridging beams. Room to north with large-framed C19 dado panelling. South room with C20 fireplace on fluted Ionic columns. Stick-baluster staircase with ramped handrail. Rear wing with clasped purlin roof. No.1A, the former stables, is not included. (Paine C: The History of Eye: Diss: 1993-: 50).
Listing NGR: TM1448973906
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468353
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Paine, C, The History of Eye, (1993), 50
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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