Ebbs House
EBBS HOUSE, BILDESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352170
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ebbs House
- Statutory Address:
- EBBS HOUSE, BILDESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352170
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ebbs House
- Statutory Address 1:
- EBBS HOUSE, BILDESTON ROAD
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:
- EBBS HOUSE, BILDESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Combs
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 03164 55848
Details
COMBS BILDESTON ROAD TM 05 NW
2/57 Ebbs House (formerly listed as Ebbs Farmhouse) 9.12.55
GV II
Former farmhouse, c.1530 with alterations of late C16 and c.1970. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered; the front elevation is long-wall jettied with exposed supporting knee-braces and joist-ends. Plaintiled roofs; two axial chimneys of red brick with rebuilt C19 shafts of red brick. C19 and C20 small-pane casements. An original oriel window has a carved hammer head on the cill, flanked by a lion to left and a gryffon to right; the return face of the cill has on either side a shield bearing a merchant-mark, said to be that of one Hebbe, a wool merchant in Combs. The original entrance doorway has a 4-centred arched head whose spandrels are carved with leaves and a shield bearing the same merchant mark. The framing exposed internally is unmoulded: unchamfered floor joists, close studding and diamond-mullion window evidence; there was once a second oriel in the hall matching the one in the chamber above. Crownpost roof, mainly rebuilt in C20, but square posts with thin 2- way braces survive. The plan form of the original house is unconventional: the main entrance doorway opens into the service end, not the hall, and there is an additional cell here which may have been a shop. A wide open fireplaces with cambered lintel in the hall. The cross-wing to left was added in later C16, and there are 2 plastered arched fireplaces of early C17. Associated with an incomplete medieval moat.
Listing NGR: TM0316455848
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279832
- 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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