River Cottage
18, CHANCERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352457
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- River Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 18, CHANCERY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352457
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- River Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18, CHANCERY LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- RIVER COTTAGE, 16, CHANCERY LANE
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:
- 18, CHANCERY LANE
- Statutory Address:
- RIVER COTTAGE, 16, CHANCERY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Debenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 17289 63571
Details
DEBENHAM CHANCERY LANE (east side) TM 16 SE 6/55 No.16 (River Cottage) & - No.18 GV II
Originally one house, now 2. First half of C17 with mid C19 facade. Timber framed and rendered, the facade lined to imitate ashlar. Slated roof. 3-cell form. 2 storeys and attic. A-range of 3 small-paned sash windows. Doorway in cross-entry position: C19 6-panel door (upper 2 panels glazed), open porch with entablature, on slender tapering timber columns. Internal stack with plain axial shaft. Later stack against left gable end. Doorway to No.16 in right gable end: C19 6-panel door with open timber porch on square posts. 1 1/2- storey pantiled wing to rear: 2 sash windows with glazing bars facing Chancery Lane; internal stack. Interior. Most of structure is concealed. No.16 under renovation at time of survey (July 1987): some widely-spaced first floor studding, corner posts with deep jowls. Newel stairs. Rear addition to No.16 (now within later lean-to) has window with C17 diamond-leaded glass. Rear wall of No.16 has some original panels of stippled plasterwork preserved within roof of lean-to; some more elaborate C17 pargetted designs are said to be concealed at rear of No.18. Roof pitch altered C19 although original structure probably intact.
Listing NGR: TM1728963571
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281479
- 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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