Tudor Shops

6, WATER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1351532
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1958
List Entry Name:
Tudor Shops
Statutory Address:
6, WATER STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1351532
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1958
List Entry Name:
Tudor Shops
Statutory Address 1:
6, WATER STREET
Statutory Address 2:
TUDOR SHOPS, 10 AND 11, LADY 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
6, WATER STREET
Statutory Address:
TUDOR SHOPS, 10 AND 11, LADY STREET

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:
Lavenham
National Grid Reference:
TL9161249155

Details

LAVENHAM LADY STREET
1.
5377
(east side)
Nos 10 and 11
(Tudor Shops)
TL 9149 50/596 23.1.58
GV
I
2.
An outstanding C15-C16 timber-framed and plastered building carefully
restored. All the timber-framing is exposed on the west front. Roof
tiled, hipped at the south end. Two storeys. The upper storey is jettied
on the whole front on exposed joists and an embattled bressumer supported
on 14 curved brackets with finely moulded capitals and shafts. At the
south end the ground storey has an original shop front with 3 four-centred
arched openings the outer two of which are blocked. There is also an
original doorway with carved spandrels. The upper storey has 4 window
range of leaded casements and there are 2 on the ground storey. At the
north end there was an outside staircase which is now enclosed. The
south front (No 6, Water Street) is plastered and has 2 window range
of small casements (C18 leaded casements on the upper storey).


Listing NGR: TL9161249155

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
276747
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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