Old Vicarage Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Old Vicarage Cottages
- WRENN ID
- bitter-column-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Vicarage Cottages is a former vicarage that has been converted into a row of four cottages. The building dates back to the early 15th century, with later modifications. It is two storeys high with attics and features a timber frame encased in mid-19th century red brick, with a roof that is partly covered in clay pantiles and partly in double Roman tiles. There are two internal chimney stacks with plain red brick shafts. The windows include some 19th-century three-light casements with segmental arched heads and horizontal bars, as well as some 20th-century two-light casements. The building also has 19th-century dormers with single-pitch sloping roofs and various doors and timber porches.
Inside, there is little exposed framing, except in Cottage No. 2, which showcases a fine crownpost truss and a complete smoke-blackened medieval roof that relates to an open hall of two bays. This features a cambered tie-beam, removed braces, and a tall octagonal crown-post with a moulded cap and base, braced in four directions at the head with wide, heavy braces. The quality of this work, along with the building's location opposite the church, suggests that it may have originally served as a parish guildhall before becoming a vicarage.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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