Hill Top Cottages
HILL TOP COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, BURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352259
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- HILL TOP COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, BURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352259
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL TOP COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, BURY 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 TOP COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, BURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wortham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08662 77144
Details
TM 07 NE WORTHAM BURY ROAD (SOUTH SIDE)
1/136 Nos. 1 and 2 Hill Top - Cottages
-- II
House, now 2 dwellings. Mid C16, extended and altered C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled roof. A large 3 cell plan, probably with a cross passage originally, additions to rear of service end to form an L on plan. 2 storeys. 5 window front, entrances towards each end have part glazed doors with bracketed hoods, 1 and 2-light glazing bar casements. Boxed eaves. Rebuilt axial ridge stack to left of centre between hall and parlour. Right gable end pentice board, exposed double purlins and plates. C19 and C20 service bays added to rear right with C20 casements, lower ridge and 2 stacks. Interior: hall has heavily and continuously moulded cross axial binding beam and storey posts, double roll and fillet mouldings flanking a central cavetto moulding, parlour has triple roll and cavetto moulded cross axial binding beam on shafted storey posts, roll moulded joists, reverse curved bracing and exposed close studding in service end. First floor: jowled and elaborately moulded posts had arched braces to cambered tie beams, stop chamfered binding beams. Queen post roof with cranked braces from jowled posts down to tie beams and arched braces from posts up to arcade plates/purlins.
Listing NGR: TM0866277144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280426
- 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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