The Ancient House
The Ancient House, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376700
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Ancient House
- Statutory Address:
- The Ancient House, High Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376700
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Ancient House
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Ancient House, High 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:
- The Ancient House, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clare
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 76944 45415
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 October 2023 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 74 NE
18/58
CLARE
CLARE
High Street (East Side)
No 26 (The Ancient House)
20.2.58.
GV
I
A C15 timber-framed and plastered house with a hall block and a jettied crosswing at the east end and C17 blocks to tile west and south. Two storeys. The crosswing jetty is supported on brackets with shafts. The north front and west gable have fine pargetting (restored). The west gable bears the date 1473. The windows are casements with lattice leaded lights. The crosswing has a five-light oriel bay on the ground and first stories; both with moulded sills and one with carved arms and supporting animals. The gable has shaped and carved bargeboards. The ground storey has a blocked doorway with carved spandrels.
The interior of the crosswing has a fine ceiling with moulded beams and joists, with leaf stops. Roof tiled, with a heavy red brick chimney stack on a rectangular base with a sunk panel on the east end.
No 26 (The Ancient House) and No 27 together with No 15 (The Vicarage), the wall to the Vicarage and No 16 (Galloway House) on the west side and the Church of SS Peter and Paul form a group.
Listing NGR: TL7690145531
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282992
- 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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