1 and 2, Hitcham Almshouses

1, HITCHAM ALMSHOUSES, BRIDGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1377372
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:
1 and 2, Hitcham Almshouses
Statutory Address:
1, HITCHAM ALMSHOUSES, BRIDGE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1377372
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:
1 and 2, Hitcham Almshouses
Statutory Address 1:
1, HITCHAM ALMSHOUSES, BRIDGE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
2, HITCHAM ALMSHOUSES, BRIDGE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
1, HITCHAM ALMSHOUSES, BRIDGE ROAD
Statutory Address:
2, HITCHAM ALMSHOUSES, BRIDGE ROAD

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Levington
National Grid Reference:
TM2336139432

Details

TM 23 NW LEVINGTON BRIDGE ROAD
WITH STRATTON HALL
5/12 Nos. 1 & 2, Hitcham
Almshouses
16.3.66
- II

Pair of almshouses, 1654, for Sir Robert Hitcham (will dated 1636). One of 2
identical parallel ranges about 7 metres apart, each range comprising a pair
of dwellings. Gable front, 1 storey and attics. Parapet gabled front wall of
red brick with tumbled-in brickwork at the parapets. The side walls are
recessed and of rendered masonry, the rear gable is of red brick. Plaintiled
roof with C19 gabled casement dormers. Rear external chimneys of red brick.
C19 and C20 casements, some with small panes. C19 boarded entrance doors.


Listing NGR: TM2336139432

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
286178
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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