The Tapers and Bumble Cottage

Bumble Cottage, 2, The Street, Kersey, Ipswich, IP7 6ED

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1351485
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1958
List Entry Name:: The Tapers and Bumble Cottage
Statutory Address:: Bumble Cottage, 2, The Street, Kersey, Ipswich, IP7 6ED

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Date:: 2002-07-22
Reference:: IOE01/07755/21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1351485
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1958
List Entry Name:: The Tapers and Bumble Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Bumble Cottage, 2, The Street, Kersey, Ipswich, IP7 6ED
Statutory Address 2:: The Tapers, 1, The Street, Kersey, Ipswich, IP7 6ED

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Bumble Cottage, 2, The Street, Kersey, Ipswich, IP7 6ED
Statutory Address:: The Tapers, 1, The Street, Kersey, Ipswich, IP7 6ED

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:: Kersey
National Grid Reference:: TM 00004 44180

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 August 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

TM 0044 58/465

KERSEY THE STREET (west side) No 1, The Tapers and No 2, Bumble Cottage

(Formerly listed as Nos 1 and 2)

23.1.58

GV II* A C16-C17 timber-framed and plastered building with a tiled roof. Two storeys. The upper storey is jettied at the north end on exposed joists. Two window range of casements with glazing bars. Tall ridge chimney stack at the north end. The doorways are approached by steps from the pavement. Renovated. Nos 1 to 6 (consec) form a continuous range of buildings. Graded for its importance in the street scene.

Listing NGR: TM0000444180

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Legacy System number:: 276612
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.