Belsize the Close
BELSIZE, 1, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351437
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Belsize the Close
- Statutory Address:
- BELSIZE, 1, BROAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351437
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Belsize the Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELSIZE, 1, BROAD STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE CLOSE, 3, BROAD 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:
- BELSIZE, 1, BROAD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE CLOSE, 3, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Boxford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 96264 40531
Details
In the entry for: BOXFORD BROAD STREET 1. (South side) 5377 No 1 (Belsize) and No 3 TL 9640 60/89 (The Close) II GV
The description should be amended to read:
2 houses, mainly in 3 builds. Early to mid C19, with some alterations. No 1, stucco rendered, formerly lined as ashlar, slate roof. Red brick internal end stacks. Rusticated rendered quoins. 2 storeys. 4 window range, sashes with glazing bars to ground floor, horned sashes to first floor, all beneath rendered hood moulds. Doorcase of rendered pilasters supporting cornice on console brackets. 4-panel door set back from doorcase. No 3, comprising block facing north, and attached range to south.
North build: rendered, mansard slate roof, right hand internal gault brick stack. 2 storeys with attics. North facade. 2 bays. Blocked doorway, beneath semicircular moulded hood. Sash with glazing bars beneath square hood. 2 first floor horned sashes with glazing bars, beneath continuous hood which returns to right hand gable. Moulded eaves cornice, also returning to gable wall. West, gable wall, 4 panel door, flanked by small 6-pane window. Blocked window beneath hood to first and ground floors. 6-pane window to gable above eaves. Attached refurbished range to south. Rendered, shallow pitch slate roof. Squat red brick stack to rear. 2 storeys, 3 bays, that to left gabled. Ground floor, left canted bay into small- paned sashes, central horned sash with glazing bars, right hand garage entrance. 3 let floor sashes with glazing bars, that to left original.
The brick warehouse block to east of No 1, is not of special interest and is not covered by these descriptive notes.
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BOXFORD BROAD STREET 1. 5377 (south side) No 1 (Belsize) and No 3 (The Close) TL 9640 60/89 II GV 2 An early C19 stuccoed building comprising 3 adjoining blocks with slate roofs. A block to the south, facing west, has a gable at the north end. A corner block has a mansard roof with stopped gables and a moulded eaves cornice. A block extends to the east slightly set back on the front. Two storeys. Four:two window range on the north front of double-hung sashes with glazing bars and stucco hood moulds. The doorway has stucco pilasters and a cornice on console brackets.
Listing NGR: TL9626440531
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 276236
- 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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