The Cottage White House
THE COTTAGE, 53, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316616
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage White House
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, 53, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316616
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage White House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, 53, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WHITE HOUSE, 53, CHURCH 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:
- THE COTTAGE, 53, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HOUSE, 53, CHURCH 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:
- TM1482673846
Details
EYE
TM1473 CHURCH STREET
585-1/7/73 (North side)
15/06/51 No.53
White House and The Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
(North side)
White House and wing adjoining White
House)
GV II*
Formerly known as: White House CHURCH STREET.
Two houses.
EXTERIOR: White House: early C16, remodelled early C18. Facade
added 1875 by JK Colling. Timber-framed and brick. Plaintile
and slate (front) roofs. Rendered and whitewashed brick facade
of 2 storeys and dormer attic; 5-window range. Central
8-panelled door, the upper two panels glazed. Eared doorcase.
Two 6/6 unhorned sashes either side and 5 to first floor.
Parapet. Gabled roof with one flat-topped dormer. Shaped early
C18 gable ends, each carrying one square stack.
To left of elevation is The Cottage: late C17 timber frame,
rendered and whitewashed. Hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. Bay
window to ground floor with 2/2 and 8/8 horned sashes.
6-panelled door to right, the upper two panels glazed. Eared
timber doorcase with open pediment. Rear elevation presents
two 2-storey gabled wings, that to the east with an early C18
shaped gable with an apical stack. Mixed fenestration
throughout of C19 and C20 casements and sashes.
INTERIOR: cellar with C16 brickwork. East ground-floor room
with large-framed C18 panelling, a modillion eaves cornice and
a 4-centred fireplace with carved spandrels. West room with
multiple roll-moulded C16 bridging beams, middle rail and
joists, all with tongue stops. Open-string mid C18 staircase
with turned balusters and a ramped and wreathed handrail. Rear
east wing with timber frame of heavy scantling and jowled
principal posts with arched braces to tie beams. Roof of front
range has 4 bays of crown post roof, the crown posts with open
arched braces to crown purlin only. The Cottage has late C17
frame with chamfered bridging beams and plain joists.
Listing NGR: TM1482673846
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468326
- 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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