Oak Cottage

OAK COTTAGE, RECTORY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352378
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Oak Cottage
Statutory Address:
OAK COTTAGE, RECTORY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1352378
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Oak Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
OAK COTTAGE, RECTORY 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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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:
OAK COTTAGE, RECTORY ROAD

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Brome and Oakley
National Grid Reference:
TM 14142 76535

Details

BROME RECTORY ROAD TM 17 NW 1/15 Oak Cottage GV II House. Right hand section probably medieval, with C18 inserted ceiling; C16 single-cell in-line addition set slightly forward to left, with higher eaves and a less steeply-pitched roof. C16 section extended to left in mid C20. Timber framed and plastered. Roofs have double Roman tiles to front slopes and pantiles to rear except for mid C20 addition which is all pantiled. 2 storeys. Small-paned casement windows. Internal stack within older section, at the junction of the 2 ranges. Plank door to rear. Modernised interior with exposed framing. C16 section has heavy reversed braces and evidence for diamond-mullioned windows on the first floor. The eaves of this part have been raised about 0.3m from the original wallplate.

Listing NGR: TM1414276535

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Legacy System number:
280956
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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