Wood Cottage
WOOD COTTAGE, TOWNHOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389489
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WOOD COTTAGE, TOWNHOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389489
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOD COTTAGE, TOWNHOUSE LANE
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:
- WOOD COTTAGE, TOWNHOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wattisfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0174775358
Details
1230/0/10009
14-NOV-01
WATTISFIELD
TOWNHOUSE LANE
Wood Cottage
II
House. C17. Plastered and colourwashed timber-frame with brick rear gable wall and pantile roof with brick central ridge and rear gable end stacks. Plan of main range with cross wing to left. Single storey and attic. 4-window range of single and 2-light casements with lean-to porch in re-entrant angle between main range and cross wing. A pair of single-light casements to the cross wing gable and a 2-light dormer to the main range. On left end a central door with a 2-light mullion and transom window either side, and above to left, a Lincolnshire dormer. On right end a 4-light casement with a 3-light over. Rear has a 2-light casement on each floor on the gable end and an outshut and a lean-to conservatory.
INTERIOR. Much tall panel framing visible with massive wall posts supporting bridging beams. These have stepped stops. The main range has back-to-back open fireplaces with hoods and bressumers. Longitudinal bridging beam at collar level to the main room over. The cross wing, now with some subdivision to first floor, had two sizeable rooms to both floors originally and may have been slightly later than the main range. The stack on the rear gable wall has open fireplaces on both floors, that to first floor smaller with cupboards either side. Stairs are C20. Roof only visible in small part of main range: original rafters, formerly coupled, now with ridge piece.
A little altered small farmhouse of the period with many features surviving.
Listing NGR: TM0174775358
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488171
- 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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