Lord Mayors Cottage
LORD MAYORS COTTAGE, 53, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351306
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lord Mayors Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LORD MAYORS COTTAGE, 53, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351306
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lord Mayors Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LORD MAYORS COTTAGE, 53, THE 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:
- LORD MAYORS COTTAGE, 53, 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:
- Barton Mills
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7240873847
Details
TL 77 SW BARTON MILLS THE STREET
4/8 No. 53( Lord Mayor's
- Cottage)
- II
House, C17 with late-mediaeval core and early C19 alterations. Hall and
service cells of 1 storey with attics, and 2-storey cross-wing to left of
mediaeval origin, much-altered. Timber-framed and plastered, the framing
partly exposed externally. Thatched roof with gabled casement dormers. Central
chimney of red and gault brick. C18 and C19 casements with leaded lights; the
panes have arched glazing bars and stained glass in the Gothick manner. Fish-
scale slated open canopy on slender posts, and C19 panelled entrance door.
Areas of tension-braced studwork and heavy lodged floor joists are visible in
the cross-wing; these may represent C15 work, but there are major alterations
of C17 and later. This site is believed to have been the home of Sir Henry
Barton, Lord Mayor of London 1416 and 1428.
Listing NGR: TL7240873847
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275749
- 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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