BEDINGFIELD ALMSHOUSES

BEDINGFIELD ALMSHOUSES, 26-32, LAMBSETH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334413
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1971
List Entry Name:: BEDINGFIELD ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: BEDINGFIELD ALMSHOUSES, 26-32, LAMBSETH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334413
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: BEDINGFIELD ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: BEDINGFIELD ALMSHOUSES, 26-32, LAMBSETH 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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Location

Statutory Address:: BEDINGFIELD ALMSHOUSES, 26-32, 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 14456 74054

Details

EYE

TM1474 LAMBSETH STREET 585-1/5/119 (East side) 20/10/71 Nos.26-32 (Even) Bedingfield Almshouses (Formerly Listed as: LAMBSETH STREET (East side) Nos.28 AND 30)

GV II

Almshouses. Founded 1636 by Nicholas Bedingfield, rebuilt 1850, converted 1975-77 for 3 occupations. Red brick with blue brick diapering. Roof of fish-scale tiles. One storey. 5-window range. Facade with 3 projecting gables, the outer ones with straight parapets on kneelers, the centre one with shaped gable on kneelers. Gables each with one 3-light stone mullioned window under stilted head. Separating gables is a 2-light mullioned window and one vertically-panelled door. Further entrance on left end. Over gable windows are stone inscriptions scrolls: Rebuilt...Anno Domini...MDCCCL. Gabled roof. 2 transverse ridge stacks with twin decorated circular flues. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Paine C: The History of Eye: Diss: 1993-: 34).

Listing NGR: TM1446374052

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Legacy System number:: 468371
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Paine, C, The History of Eye, (1993), 34

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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.