The Cottage the Old Vicarage
THE COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316622
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage the Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316622
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage the Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, 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, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, 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:
- TM 14912 73822
Details
EYE
TM1473 CHURCH STREET 585-1/7/79 (East side) 15/06/51 The Old Vicarage and The Cottage (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (North side) The Vicarage)
II
Vicarage, now private houses. Mid C16 north-south wing with south front added 1723 for Rev.John Burgate, refenestrated 1733. Interior reordered 1899 and alterations made. Plastered and colourwashed timber frame, the plaster raised in panels to south front. Machine tile roof to facade, otherwise pantiles. EXTERIOR: south front of 2 storeys in 6-window range. Mid C19 6-panelled and fielded door in centre beneath hood mould on label stops. Three 2-light timber and metal mid C19 casements to left, 4 to right of doorway. 6 similar first-floor casements, that to centre of 3 lights. Gabled roof. 2 rebuilt ridge stacks. West return with bay window added 1899. East front presents 4 gables of varying heights and pitch, that to left belonging to 1723 facade. Brick plinths. Scattered fenestration of C19 casements. North gable (The Cottage) has brick to ground floor on east side, jettied to north front, the jetty bressumer on corner brackets. Rebuilt ridge stack to second gable from north. Rear of front wing with two 6/6 unhorned sashes, fenestration otherwise of C19 casements. INTERIOR: principal door leads to hall, opened through both floors in 1899 and gallery inserted at first-floor level to north with a turned timber balustrade. Single-flight staircase to left in narrow well. Boxed bridging beams. Rear wing with exposed posts to timber frame, jowled principal studs and arched braces to tie beams. Jettied north element with queen-post roof, the posts supported by arched braces rising from tie beams. (Paine C: The History of Eye: Diss: 1993-: 50).
Listing NGR: TM1491273822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468332
- 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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