Fountain House
FOUNTAIN HOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351960
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain House
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNTAIN HOUSE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351960
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUNTAIN HOUSE, 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:
- FOUNTAIN HOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Bergholt
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 06954 34596
Details
TM 0634 EAST BERGHOLT THE STREET (East Side)
6/65 Fountain House (Formerly listed as 22.2.55 Greens Stores)
GV II
House and cottage, now restaurant. 3 builds, central section C16 with probable C17 section to left and C18 cottage to right. Timber-framed, rendered. Plain tile roof, red brick stack. Two storeys and attic with single-storey cottage projecting to right gable end to street. Section to left has 3-light windows with central casements. Jettied central range has 2½-bay frame. Porch to left with elliptical arch and 6-panel door. 3-light window with central casement and 16-pane sash to right. Added porch to right. Three first floor casements. Gabled dormer, off- centre ridge stack to right and roof gableted to right. Cottage has C19 door and window with glazing bars to gable end. Interior: jettied range shows jowled posts, chamfered tie beams with arch braces, wall plates and studding. Central half-bay contains large stepped stack. Chamfered spine beam and exposed joists to ground floor. Chamfered beams with run-out stops. Rebuilt inglenook retains Tudor-arched bressummer to rear. The cottage was the home of John Dunthorne, village plumber and artist companion of John Constable.
Listing NGR: TM0695434596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278773
- 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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