Abbey House
ABBEY HOUSE, SCHOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352475
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey House
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY HOUSE, SCHOOL ROAD
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- Date:
- 2005-02-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/13550/36
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352475
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY HOUSE, 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:
- ABBEY HOUSE, 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:
- Monk Soham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 21605 65516
Details
MONK SOHAM SCHOOL ROAD TM 26 NW 2/158 Abbey House - - II
House, formerly the rectory. Dated 1846, by S.S. Teulon. Red brick with white brick dressings and further embellishment in black-brick. Brick dentil eaves cornice, brick copings to gables. Roof of mid C20 concrete pantiles, originally plaintiled. 2 storeys and attic. Irregular form. Entrance front (east), garden front (west) and south front each have a shaped gable with integral stack. Plain gable to north. Various sash windows with slender glazing bars; chamfered reveals. East and west fronts each have 2 tripartite windows, those to ground floor within shallow square bays with hipped roofs. Lean-to open porch with drop finials; semi-glazed door, probably the original altered. Opposite doorway to west has 3-centre arched head; the door has 6 narrow panels, the upper 3 glazed. Above is a good 3-centre arched stair window with Y tracery and a transom; decorative glazing with a pattern of linked circles. South front has ground floor canted bay with French windows: this is probably a slightly later addition. To north, a square turret with pyramidal roof was for W.C.'s. Attic lit by mid C20 flush rooflights; there was a gabled dormer to east. Contemporary lean-to and enclosed service yard to north; gateway to east has piers with ball finials. Interior. Well stair with 2 balusters per tread, each pair alternately twisted and turned. Plans and specifications for the house are in the Parsonage House Papers (ref. FM1) at the Suffolk Record Office.
Listing NGR: TM2160565516
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281582
- 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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