Wellside Cottages and Attached Former Reading Room
WELLSIDE COTTAGES AND ATTACHED FORMER READING ROOM, CULFORD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1408396
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Wellside Cottages and Attached Former Reading Room
- Statutory Address:
- WELLSIDE COTTAGES AND ATTACHED FORMER READING ROOM, CULFORD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1408396
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Wellside Cottages and Attached Former Reading Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLSIDE COTTAGES AND ATTACHED FORMER READING ROOM, CULFORD
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:
- WELLSIDE COTTAGES AND ATTACHED FORMER READING ROOM, CULFORD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Culford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL8538274795
Details
Pair of cottages. c.1800 (between 1793 and 1823). Random flint with brick dressings, quoins and vertical strips. Pantile roof with brick central ridge stack. Single depth plan of two rooms to each cottage. Central plank door to each with a 2-light casement either side. A boarded gable dormer above on each side towards centre of row. Extending to rear is a former reading room added by 1840. Plank door and various casements.
INTERIOR is virtually unaltered and has plank doors, brick floors, exposed bridging beams and joists, straight flight stairs, and large fireplaces with cooking ranges. The reading room has a large fireplace with range inserted and a large hood which narrows to the flue which is curved over the edge of the cottage eaves and borne over a brick arch inside the cottages to join the main cottage stack.
HISTORY. These cottages were built for the 2nd Marquess Cornwallis 1774-1823 during his ownership of Culford Hall, when he carried out many improvements employing James Wyatt and Humphry Repton for the hall and park. The estate was sold after the death of Lord Cornwallis in 1823 and these cottages are marked on the 1823 estate map.
These cottages, which have been unoccupied for many years, survive in a remarkably unaltered state and form a significant group with the adjacent Fieldside Cottages and the nearby Church of St.Peter.
SOURCES
Estate maps of Culford, Ingham and Timworth of 1793, 1823 and 1840.
Sale Particulars of sale of estate in 1823.
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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