Red House
RED HOUSE, SHOP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352443
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Red House
- Statutory Address:
- RED HOUSE, SHOP STREET
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- 2003-03-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/10284/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352443
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Red House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED HOUSE, SHOP 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:
- RED HOUSE, SHOP STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Worlingworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 22171 68545
Details
WORLINGWORTH SHOP STREET TM 26 NW 5/132 Red House 29.7.55 - II House. Early C16 to rear, late C18 front block. Double-pile form. Red brick with wooden modillion eaves cornice; roof has C20 plaintiles to front and glazed black pantiles to rear. Older work timber framed and plastered under a pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attics. 5-bay facade: flush-frame sashes with glazing bars under flat rubbed brick arches. Doorcase has pilasters with dosserets, an open pediment and panelled reveals; 6-panel raised and fielded door, semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. 3 pedimented dormers with 2-light small-paned windows. Gable stacks. The left gable end has various sash windows and blind panels; this wall screens the earlier work by means of a flat parapet before sloping steeply down at the rear. Internally the earlier range has some good exposed framing. Hall has close studding and a moulded bridging beam with a band of running leaf carving on the soffit. In the side wall of the parlour, close to the gable end, is a blocked C16 doorway with 4-centre arched head. At the service end the C16 structure is only visible on the upper floor. Attic floor has closely-spaced plain joists set flat. Roof has 2 rows of wind-braced butt purlins; over the hall and parlour chambers there are slightly cambered collars with long solid arched braces meeting at the centre. Front range has original well stair with stick balusters, in 2 flights.
Listing NGR: TM2217168545
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281413
- 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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