Thatched Cottage and the Thumb Bit
THATCHED COTTAGE, BADWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352529
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Thatched Cottage and the Thumb Bit
- Statutory Address:
- THATCHED COTTAGE, BADWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352529
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Thatched Cottage and the Thumb Bit
- Statutory Address 1:
- THATCHED COTTAGE, BADWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE THUMB BIT, BADWELL 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:
- THATCHED COTTAGE, BADWELL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE THUMB BIT, BADWELL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walsham-le-Willows
- National Grid Reference:
- TL9997170546
Details
TL 97 SE
2/26
WALSHAM LE WILLOWS
BADWELL ROAD
Thatched Cottage & The Thumb Bit
GV
II
House, divided into 2. Early C17. Timber framed, with old comb-pargetted
render. Thatched roof, hipped on right, gabled on left. 1½ storeys. One
internal chimney stack with a large plain shaft of old brick, and an end
stack, set externally on the left, with old brick laid in English Bond to the
lower courses. One square-headed dormer with a 2-light casement window;
horizontal glazing bars to lights. To the left of the internal stack one 3-
light C20 metal casement window and one 2-light casement window with 6 panes
to each light. To the right of the stack, one 2-light and one single light
window, both casements, with 6-pane lights. Half-glazed C20 door in a lobby-
entrance position. Thatched Cottage has only one ground floor room with plain
joists set flat; no other timbering visible. The Thumb Bit (to right of
stack) has plain joists set flat on the ground floor, and a main beam set on
edge, which may indicate that there was a smoke-bay before the brick chimney.
The present fireplace is C20, built forward from the face of the stack. On
the upper floor, one tie-beam removed. In the gable end, housings for 2
adjacent 4-light diamond-mullioned windows. Exposed roof with clasped
purlins. A single storey red brick lean-to along the whole rear.
Listing NGR: TL9997170546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281771
- 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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