Kisumu
KISUMU, WICKHAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352523
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kisumu
- Statutory Address:
- KISUMU, WICKHAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352523
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kisumu
- Statutory Address 1:
- KISUMU, WICKHAM 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:
- KISUMU, WICKHAM STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wickham Skeith
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 09072 69745
Details
WICKHAM SKEITH WICKHAM STREET TM 06 NE 2/154 Kisumu -
-- II Former farmhouse. A C16 3-cell house with early C17 in-line addition to right forming a single long range. Timber framed and rendered, pantiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. 5 windows, mid C20 casements with horizontal glazing bars. A mid C20 plank door and gabled timber porch in position of cross-entry. 2 internal stacks, one in each phase, have substantial axial shafts, the lower portions of C16-C17 brick. Interior. C16 house is in 5 bays: much exposed framing, especially in parlour cell which has close studding. Evidence for various windows, including a diamond-mullioned attic window. 2 4-centre arched doorways by stack into hall and parlour. Hall has chamfered-joist ceiling and an altered plank and muntin partition against the former cross- passage. Massive fireplace lintol, the opening altered. Parlour joists plastered over. A particularly well-preserved fireplace in the parlour has undamaged brickwork with remains of lining of mortar joints. Upper fireplaces are later C17 additions. Parlour chamber fireplace has depressed stuccoed arch and a simple monochrome painted design above showing a rectangle with serrated border enclosing a square panel with similar motifs. C16 roof has one row of wind-braced clasped purlins. Early C17 addition is in a single long bay, this end of the house more altered. Ground floor room at junction with C16 end has chamfered floorbeam with nicked ogee stops.
Listing NGR: TM0907269745
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281739
- 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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