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Latitude: 52.1417 / 52°8'30"N
Longitude: 0.7302 / 0°43'48"E
OS Eastings: 586924
OS Northings: 252784
OS Grid: TL869527
Mapcode National: GBR QG5.RFT
Mapcode Global: VHKDQ.LFXJ
Plus Code: 9F424PRJ+M3
Entry Name: Former range of almshouses
Listing Date: 9 February 1978
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1351870
English Heritage Legacy ID: 278514
ID on this website: 101351870
Location: Shimpling Street, Babergh, Suffolk, IP29
County: Suffolk
District: Babergh
Civil Parish: Shimpling
Built-Up Area: Shimpling Street
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Alpheton St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Almshouse
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TL 85 SE
4/769
Shimpling
THE STREET (North Side)
Primrose Cottage, The Old Post Office and Chestnut Cottage
(Formerly listed as Almshouses and Primrose Cottage)
GV
II
A range of C18 timber-framed and plastered almshouses arranged in three blocks, with a long block extending east and west, set back, and two shorter blocks extending to the south at the east and west ends. Over the east doorway of the long block there is the date 1777. One storey and attics. Casement windows, some are old leaded lights and some modern. There is also a small C19 former shop window in the long block. Roofs pantiled, with three dormers to the long block (two gabled and one sloping roofed). The front of the quadrangle formed by the three blocks has three large chestnut trees.
Listing NGR: TL8692452784
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