Lanchester Antiques Old House the Gables
LANCHESTER ANTIQUES, 21, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1352462
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lanchester Antiques Old House the Gables
- Statutory Address:
- LANCHESTER ANTIQUES, 21, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-08-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/06087/16
- Rights:
- © Mr Derek Routen. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1352462
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lanchester Antiques Old House the Gables
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANCHESTER ANTIQUES, 21, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- OLD HOUSE, 23, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE GABLES, 25, HIGH 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:
- LANCHESTER ANTIQUES, 21, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HOUSE, 23, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE GABLES, 25, HIGH STREET
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 17398 63276
Details
DEBENHAM HIGH STREET (east side) TM 16 SE 6/88 No.21 (Lanchester 9.12.55 Antiques), No.23 (Old House), No.25 (The Gables) (formerly listed as Premises adjoining Holmland on S. side)
GV II*
2 houses and shop. Originally a high quality open hall house of late C15 with contemporary solar and commercial cross-wings to right. Service end to left is of c.1600. Rear wings of late C16 and C18. Timber framed with smooth render. A little studding and part of the hall window is exposed at the rear. Plaintiled roof. 2 storeys, part with attic. Cross-wings are end-jettied to street on original thick brackets. Mainly sash windows with glazing bars. Solar wing has a 3-light canted bay to ground floor. To left is a shopfront of c.1900. No.23 has a lobby entrance with mid C20 half-glazed door under a flat hood. No.25 has a 6-panel door. 3 flat-roofed dormers. Heavy internal stack with 4 detached octagonal shafts, the caps missing, rebuilt 1987 in modified form. Small C19 stack against side wall of right cross-wing. C18 wing to rear of shop is roughcast-rendered and roofed with glazed black pantiles; a good ogee-headed window with decorative glazing. Interior. Main components of frame exposed on upper floor, the structure otherwise largely concealed. Hollow-chamfered cambered tie beam over former open hall, the braces missing. It supports a fine octagonal crown-post with moulded base and cap and 4-way bracing at the head. The roof timbers over the hall are mostly concealed. Tie beam over solar has mortices for heavy arched braces; intact roof above with moulded octagonal crown-post. A solar window, briefly exposed when the front was re-rendered, has traceried lights. The end cross-wing was open to the street beneath the jetty and the ground floor had a commercial function; the roof over the chamber above has a further moulded octagonal crown-post. In mid C16 the open hall was floored over and a stack built at the upper end. The parlour fireplace lintol has a late C16 painted design of foliage and flowers in decorative panels, in white, pink and red on a black ground. The parlour ceiling has particularly fine mid C17 plasterwork. There is a central beam with running vine foliage and 4 panels with wavy foliage borders; each panel contains a bold wreath enclosing a Tudor rose and 4 surrounding motifs. This is the most substantial medieval house in the village.
Listing NGR: TM1739863276
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281512
- 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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