Church Cottage
CHURCH COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1352360
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1352360
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, LOWER 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:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rattlesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 97847 59027
Details
RATTLESDEN LOWER STREET TL 95 NE 3/106 Church Cottage (formerly - listed as Old Moat House, 15.11.54 The Butts) GV II* House, mid C15. An open hall house with a crosswing to left; the parlour cell to right was demolished C19 or earlier. Hall of one storey and attics, crosswing of 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered with close-studding exposed. The wing is jettied on 3 sides facing the road and churchyard, with spur corner posts at two corners, having shallow mouldings to the capitals (one missing). The underside of the jetty has a plaster coving added perhaps in C18. Early C17 console brackets at the gable. Plaintiled roofs, the cross-wing with C19 pierced and fluted bargeboards. An axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in C19 red and gault brick. 3-light casements of C18, and two C20 replacements. Late C18 or early C19 6-panelled door at cross-entry position (to right is one jamb of the original doorway, with 2-centred curvature). The cross-wing is in 2 bays, with evidence for wide mullioned windows at back and front. At the front of the west wall to the churchyard is a blocked shop window with 4-centred head, and evidence for another adjacent. Coupled rafter roof. The open hall is in two unequal bays, with a complete smoke-encrusted roof. Strongly cambered tie beam at the open truss with 4- centred very heavy archbraces and evidence for pilasters beneath. A cross- quadrate crownpost with 4-way plank braces, offset from the centre of the shaft. Plain inserted 1st floor in hall, of late C16/early C17, the binding beam lodged over the transomes of the original hall window.
Listing NGR: TL9773959041
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280859
- 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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