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Melford Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Redgrave, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.357 / 52°21'25"N

Longitude: 1.0036 / 1°0'13"E

OS Eastings: 604635

OS Northings: 277464

OS Grid: TM046774

Mapcode National: GBR SGP.8KM

Mapcode Global: VHKCX.B0YY

Plus Code: 9F439243+RF

Entry Name: Melford Cottage

Listing Date: 16 March 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1254343

English Heritage Legacy ID: 437812

ID on this website: 101254343

Location: Redgrave, Mid Suffolk, IP22

County: Suffolk

District: Mid Suffolk

Civil Parish: Redgrave

Built-Up Area: Redgrave

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Redgrave cum Botesdale with the Rickinghalls

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Tagged with: House

Description


This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 May 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards

TM 0477
5/71

REDGRAVE
THE GREEN (SOUTH SIDE)
Melford Cottage

(Formerly listed as Bridge House)

II

House, latterly two dwellings. Late C16, altered and part rebuilt C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched pantiled roof. Three cell cross entry plan. Two storeys. Entrance into hall to left of original entrance, two-light glazing bar casements, C20 gabled dormers. Lean-to in front of rebuilt parlour bay, rebuilt ridge stack between hall and parlour. To right a C20 porch and external C19 kitchen stack in a lean-to outshut.

Interior: much of frame concealed, four bays survive, hall has jowled storey posts to a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam. First floor had large five-light diamond mullioned windows, reverse cranked arched braces in walling, edge halved scarf joint, a sharply cambered tie beam, clasped purlin roof, originally hipped to service end.

Listing NGR: TM0463577464

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