May Cottage
MAY COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352490
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- May Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MAY COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352490
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- May Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAY COTTAGE, CHURCH 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:
- MAY COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 19022 65855
Details
KENTON CHURCH LANE TM 16 NE 1/134 May Cottage - - II
Former farmhouse. Early C17 with C20 gabled addition set forward to left. Renovated 1978. Timber framed, smooth render, roof of interlocking concrete pantiles. 2-cell form. 2 storeys. Mid C20 standard small-paned casement windows. 2 original first floor diamond-mullioned windows, in right gable end and at rear; another visible inside. Entrance door in side wall of C20 addition. Internal stack with rendered shaft. Small probably C19 rear lean- to. Interior. The frame is in 3 unequal bays, much of it exposed. Cranked corner braces. Front upper window to left has deeper sill and probably projected. Heavy square joists in ceiling of left cell. Joists in larger right cell concealed. The newel stair is largely original. Roof has one row of clasped purlins and deep collars; no wind-bracing was apparent.
Listing NGR: TM1902265855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281558
- 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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