Chestnut Cottage
CHESTNUT COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352652
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTNUT COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352652
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTNUT COTTAGE
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:
- CHESTNUT COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Margaret, South Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 31776 83653
Details
SOUTH ELMHAM, ST. MARGARET ST. MARGARET'S GREEN TM 38 SW
4/71 Chestnut Cottage -
- II
Former farmhouse. C16 and mid C17. 2 storeys, part with attic; 3-cell form. Timber-framed and rendered; black glazed pantiles. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft. Old casement windows with pintle hinges: 3 3- light and one small 2-light window to the upper floor, 3 3-light with transome to the ground floor. 2 C20 plank doors under a lean-to pantiled roof. The frame falls into 2, possibly 3, separate sections: later alterations to the layout. The 2 central bays have only the main beam exposed. To the right of the stack, the parlour has plain unchamfered joists and a main beam with very widely cut ovolo-moulding and damaged leaf-stops. Very small main posts, but the ceiling is not apparently inserted. Plain timber lintel to fireplace. In the room above the parlour, an original upper ceiling with the same moulding; fireplace with brick arch, decorated with plaster rustication; arched braces to long and side walls; the roof above this section in 2 bays: clasped purlins and arched windbraces, one to each bay, sloping towards the stack. At the extreme left, a C17 addition has reused timbers, primary braces and bisected studs; chamfered main beam with scroll-stop and groove,and unchamfered joists.
Listing NGR: TM3177683653
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282331
- 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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