Number 9 Dolphin House and Numbers 11-15
11-15, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352505
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Number 9 Dolphin House and Numbers 11-15
- Statutory Address:
- 11-15, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352505
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Number 9 Dolphin House and Numbers 11-15
- Statutory Address 1:
- 11-15, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- DOLPHIN HOUSE, 9, FRONT STREET
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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:
- 11-15, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address:
- DOLPHIN HOUSE, 9, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mendlesham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 10469 65792
Details
MENDLESHAM FRONT STREET (south side) TM 16 NW 7/46 No.9 (Dolphin House) & 29.7.55 Nos. 11-15 (odd) (formerly _ listed as Elm House, 3 houses adjoining Elm House)
GV II Originally one or 2 dwellings, now 4. A long C16 range fronting the street with early C17 2-cell cross-wing projecting to left. Timber framed and plastered; main range has much old panelled plasterwork with pargetted infilling. Plaintiled roof. Original carved console brackets at foot of gable of wing. 2 storeys, attics in cross-wing. Main range is jettied to street. Various casement windows, some old, 2 at first floor with diamond and square-leaded panes. Nos. 11 and 13 have mainly mid C20 windows, No.ll with a canted ground floor bay. Gable end of wing (No.9) has 6-panel raised and fielded door and blocked narrow segmental fanlight; 2 flanking sash windows with glazing bars. Over the whole is a frieze and dentil cornice, bracketed each side of the doorway. Boarded door to No.11, C16-C17 plank door to No.13, plank door to No.15. Main range has 2 internal stacks with rendered shafts, the cross-wing an internal stack with red brick shaft. Interior. Good intact cross-wing: concealed studding and joists, ovolo floorbeams in ceilings of lower rooms, roof with 2 tiers of butt purlins and one-way curved wind bracing. Oak newel stair: original doors to upper flight and to cupboard under lower flight. Roof over left end of main range (part of No.9) is a later reconstruction. Interiors of Nos.11-15 not examined.
Listing NGR: TM1046965792
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281631
- 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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