Tailors Cottages

TAILORS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352290
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Tailors Cottages
Statutory Address:
TAILORS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352290
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Tailors Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
TAILORS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TAILORS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Bacton
National Grid Reference:
TM 05227 67131

Details

BACTON CHURCH ROAD TM 06 NE

2/6 Nos 1 and 2 Tailors Cottages

- II

Two houses; built as one in mid C16, with early C17 alterations. Restored 1985. 3-cell plan. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered with C20 herring- bone pargetting in panels. Thatched roof with two C20 casement dormers. An axial chimney with shaft rebuilt in C20 red brick, and a C20 gable chimney to right. C20 casements; a C16 diamond-mullioned window beneath the eaves. C20 thatched gabled entrance porch with framed and boarded door. Heavy C16 framing exposed internally. Arch-braced studwork, massive unchamfered floor joists, queenpost roof. A number of complete diamond-mullioned windows; the parlour chamber to left has moulded mullions. An altered C17 chimney with lintelled open fireplaces. The former service end was half-hipped and has a blocked mullioned window; to its right the service end was extended in early C17, also with diamond mullioned windows. Included despite C20 alterations because of good C16 framing.

Listing NGR: TM0522767131

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
280488
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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