Weavers House
WEAVERS HOUSE, LOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1351601
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Weavers House
- Statutory Address:
- WEAVERS HOUSE, LOWER STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-07-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/07933/34
- Rights:
- © Mr Kelvin Cuffy. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1351601
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Weavers House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEAVERS HOUSE, LOWER 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:
- WEAVERS HOUSE, LOWER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 04260 33820
Details
TM 0433 STRATFORD ST MARY LOWER STREET (west side) 6/34 Weavers House 22.2.55 GV II* House, probably originally incorporating weaving premises. Early-mid C16. Timber-framed. Plain tile roof. Red brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys. 5 ½-bay front with 2-bay rear cross range, probably truncated. Lobby entry with further blocked entrance to right end which has a separate staircase and no communication with main house at 1st floor level. Jettied front with moulded bressummer and joist ends. Close-studding. Straight down braces to right end. Lobby entry,now open to inner doors,has added cornice and patterned carved brackets. Windows of ovolo mullion type are mainly the originals restored with some inserted from other buildings. Windows to main house have side lights except the hall which has a pair of 5-light windows forming a continuous row. Small 2-light window above entrance. To right end a long row of mullioned lights continues round the gable end to the stack. Steeply-pitched swept roof, hipped to left. Saw-tooth ridge stack and further large external stack to right gable. The cross wing and rear have similar details. Indications to rear wall of right end of former external stair. Interior: exposed framing. Ovolo-moulded beams and joists to upper end, chamfered beam with curved stops to right end. The parlour to left has C17 panelling and inglenook fireplace. Newel spiral stair to rear of stack. Rendered basket-arched fireplace to hall. Evidence for possible position of loom against rear wall. Right end has C20 stairs and inglenook. Rear wing contains C17 painted door. During restoration of 1930s, plaster with a date of 1758 was removed from the front of the house revealing several blocked original windows. Some windows and other features have been brought from houses in course of demoli- tion in Ipswich and elsewhere.
Hussey, C, 'Weavers House Stratford St Mary', Country Life, 28 September 1945, pp.552-555.
Listing NGR: TM0426033820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277233
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 28 September, (1945), 552-5
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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