Hill House
HILL HOUSE, MELLIS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352238
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hill House
- Statutory Address:
- HILL HOUSE, MELLIS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352238
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL HOUSE, MELLIS 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:
- HILL HOUSE, MELLIS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burgate
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08714 75875
Details
BURGATE MELLIS ROAD (EAST SIDE) TM 07 NE 1/14 Hill House - -- II
Farmhouse. Probably early C17, cased and part reroofed early C19, part rebuilt and extended late C19. Timber frame, plastered with some red brick casing. Steeply pitched black glazed and machine pantiled roofs. Appears as 3 cell lobby entry front range with parallel 2 cell block to rear centre and left, earlier sections are to rear and front left, original plan obscure. 2 storeys and attics. Entrance to left of centre in a gabled porch, 6 fielded panelled architraved door with a rectangular fanlight, wavy bargeboards. C19 2-light architraved glazing bar casements, ground floor hoodboards. Boxed eaves. Axial ridge stack with moulded capping to 3 conjoined diagonal flues. Left gable end small attic casement, exposed plates and purlins. Parallel range to rear has a slightly lower ridge, exposed purlins to rendered left gable end. To rear: red brick facing, ground floor, entrance to right with 6 reeded panelled door, blind entrance to left, 2 recessed 2-light casements. First floor 16 pane sash and a 3-light leaded casement. Central ridge stack. Roof hipped to inner brick faced return with varied casements and a C20 lean- to entrance porch. Interior: left cell of front range has ground floor close studding, ogee stop chamfered axial binding beam, runout chamfered joists, stop chamfered fireplace bressumer, first floor bar stop chamfered binding beam, double purlin roof with lower butt purlins, upper clasped purlins, reverse curved windbraces, to centre all rebuilt, to right all C19. Rear bays have altered framing on ground floor, first floor 6-light ovolo mullion and transomed and 3-light diamond mullioned window openings. Close studding. (East Anglian Miscellany 1922, pp8-9).
Listing NGR: TM0871475875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280302
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
East Anglian Miscellany in East Anglian Miscellany, (1922), 8-9
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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