Church Cottage
CHURCH COTTAGE, SCHOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352411
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, SCHOOL ROAD
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- Date:
- 2005-06-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/13905/31
- Rights:
- © Mr Wilfred N. Winder. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352411
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, SCHOOL 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:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, SCHOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elmswell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 98368 63683
Details
TL 96 SE ELMSWELL SCHOOL ROAD
5/33 Church Cottage -
-- II
House, mid C16. One storey and attics. 3-cell cross-entry plan. Timber- framed and plastered. Pantiled roof, once thatched: gabled C20 casement dormers. An axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in C20 red brick. Mid C20 casements. A C16 ogee moulded mullioned window is exposed and glazed, and another of early C17 ovolo-mullioned type in the parlour. A C20 half-glazed panelled door on the garden side at cross-entry position. C20 gabled entrance porch at lobby-entrance position with panelled door. Interior: Typical modest but heavy mid C16 framing throughout. Unchamfered square-sectioned floor joists. A pair of 4-centred arched service room doorways (one restored). Clasped purlin roof; windbracing at gable only. Central over the hall is a heavy collarbeam truss, in place of a tie beam. Evidence for a timber-framed chimney on the site of the present one, which is of c.1600 with back-to-back lintelled fireplaces. Restored c.1980 after a period of dereliction, when the service cell was rebuilt and other alterations made.
Listing NGR: TL9836863683
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281136
- 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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