Brookside
BROOKSIDE, ELMSWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391437
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Brookside
- Statutory Address:
- BROOKSIDE, ELMSWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391437
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Brookside
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOKSIDE, ELMSWELL 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.
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:
- BROOKSIDE, ELMSWELL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetherden
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00584 62870
Details
WETHERDEN
1227/0/10006 ELMSWELL ROAD 28-MAR-03 Brookside
II House. c.1600 with early C19 alterations. Plastered and whitewashed timber-frame. Welsh slate roof with gault brick central ridge stack. 2-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys. 2-window range on both floors of 3/3 sashes with moulded architraves. Central door. On left end a similar 3/3 sash on both floors. Lean-to under catslide roof to rear.
INTERIOR. Tall panel framing with jowled posts. Simple plan form with parlour to left and hall to right with chambers above, each of a single bay with central chimney bay. Back-to-back open fireplaces with exposed brickwork and piers. Hall fireplace with chamfered bressumer with scroll-stop to right (damaged to left). Parlour fireplace with chamfered bressumer and curved hearth back. Timber-framing employs a high proportion of reused timbers from a medieval house. Studwork of average spacing, some unpegged. Midrail to front wall and right-hand gable. Rear wall has full-height studding. Most or all studs are medieval reused. Jowled storeyposts, chamfered wallplates of early C17 form with bladed scarfs and narrow chamfers. Uncambered chamfered tiebeams. Simple clasped purlin roof with deep and narrow collars. A number of reused, smoke-blackened, medieval rafters with redundant halvings for collars. 4 rafters have double collar-halving from hipped structures; the medieval building was therefore hipped at both ends.
A little-altered house of the period and an interesting example of the reuse of earlier timber framing.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 495207
- 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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