Aldersyde, the Cottage and Adjoining Cottage

ALDERSYDE, THE COTTAGE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, LOW STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352374
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:
Aldersyde, the Cottage and Adjoining Cottage
Statutory Address:
ALDERSYDE, THE COTTAGE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, LOW STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352374
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Aldersyde, the Cottage and Adjoining Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
ALDERSYDE, THE COTTAGE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, LOW STREET

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
ALDERSYDE, THE COTTAGE AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, LOW STREET

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Hoxne
National Grid Reference:
TM1802477285

Details

HOXNE LOW STREET (west side)
TM 17 NE
7/102 Aldersyde, The Cottage &
adjoining cottage to north
29.7.55
(previously listed as
Aldersyde, Two cottages
adjoining Aldersyde)
GV II
Originally one dwelling, now 3 cottages. C16, in several phases, with later
alterations. Timber framed and plastered, with old panelled plasterwork to
front. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys. A single long range with continuous jetty
to road frontage. 5 windows, mainly C18 3-light casements. Set forward to
extreme right is a C19 plastered and gabled one-storey addition with old 4-
light window. In the centre of the range is a canted small-paned former shop
window of c.1800. Aldersyde has a C19 4-panel door, The Cottage has a C19 4-
panel raised and fielded door, right hand cottage has a C20 door; all are
reached by short flights of steps. 2 internal stacks, that to left an C18
insertion with cross-axial shaft. The frame is in 7 bays. There is evidence
for extensive remodelling during C16, the rear wall older than the remainder.
End bay to left (bay 1) was a carriage entrance, the upper floor set high;
later infilling, with a false jetty to match the remainder. Bays 2 and 7 have
one-bay rooms with roll-moulded axial bridging beams and moulded end cornices;
chamfered joists are exposed in bay 2. Bays 4 and 5 comprise a single cell
with roll-moulded cross-beams and cornices. Bay 3 has substantial plain
joists, with no evidence for a partition dividing it from the adjacent 2-bay
room. Bay 6 is occupied by the stack. Bay 4 has open trusses on each side,
one with straight tie beam braces, unusual in C16. Good quality studding with
reverse-curved braces. Evidence for many C16 windows, 2 to rear with exposed
chamfered mullions; front wall has sills of 2 first floor oriel windows. The
Cottage has open ground floor fireplace with original lintol. C18 roof with 2
rows of stepped butt purlins.


Listing NGR: TM1802477285

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
281043
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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