Rowan Cottage

ROWAN COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374910
Date first listed:
09-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Rowan Cottage
Statutory Address:
ROWAN COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374910
Date first listed:
09-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Rowan Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
ROWAN COTTAGE

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ROWAN COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Badwell Ash
National Grid Reference:
TM 00854 68167

Details

TM 06 NW GT ASHFIELD LONG THURLOW

3/52 Rowan Cottage -

-- II

House, mid/late C16 with major remodelling of c.1800. 3-cell cross-entry plan. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Pantiled roof, once thatched; one C19 pantiled raking dormer. An axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in C19 red brick. C19 small-pane casements. Panelled C19 door at cross-entry position, with cantilevered canopy. The 2-bay right hand cell has complete and interesting framing of c.1550-1580. Reverse arch windbraced studding. Roof possibly of queenpost type. Chamfered exposed floorjoists with clear evidence for timber-framed chimney on the site of the present one. The C17 brick chimney has lintelled back-to-back open fireplaces. The two left-hand cells were rebuilt in plain primary-braced studding in late C18 or early C19.

Listing NGR: TM0085468167

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Legacy System number:
281155
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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