Reading Room Cottage
READING ROOM COTTAGE, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384350
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- READING ROOM COTTAGE, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384350
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- READING ROOM COTTAGE, EAST 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:
- READING ROOM COTTAGE, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwold
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 50937 76101
Details
SOUTHWOLD
TM5076 EAST STREET
588-1/7/38 (North East side)
Reading Room Cottage
GV II
House. c1870. Roughcast and painted brick; slate roof with two
rendered ridge stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey gabled front to street; 3-window right
return. Entrance in right return. Gable end has single window
to each floor, of 3 lights on ground floor, 2 lights on first
floor, 1 light in gable apex. Right return has plank door to
left of centre; to left, one 2-light casement window, to right
three similar windows. On first floor, three 2-light windows.
Windows are all casements with lozenge pattern cast-iron
glazing bars.
INTERIOR: no features of particular interest.
Listing NGR: TM5093776101
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484784
- 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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