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The Four Horse Shoes

A Grade II Listed Building in Rickinghall, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.339 / 52°20'20"N

Longitude: 0.9983 / 0°59'53"E

OS Eastings: 604352

OS Northings: 275440

OS Grid: TM043754

Mapcode National: GBR SGW.77D

Mapcode Global: VHKCX.8G3T

Plus Code: 9F428XQX+H8

Entry Name: The Four Horse Shoes

Listing Date: 16 March 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1241242

English Heritage Legacy ID: 440222

ID on this website: 101241242

Location: Rickinghall, Mid Suffolk, IP22

County: Suffolk

District: Mid Suffolk

Civil Parish: Rickinghall Inferior

Built-Up Area: Rickinghall

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

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Description


The following building shall be added:-

RICKINGHALL INFERIOR
TM0475
6/168 THE STREET
The Four Horse
Shoes
II

Cottage.Probably C18.Flint rubble with red brick dressings including brick
quoins, tumbling to gable parapets,moulded brick kneelers and diagonally
cogged brick eaves course.Plain clay tile roof with gabled ends, the right
hand,end abuts adjoining house.Integral brick stack at both gable ends with
tall shafts.Plan : probably a simple depth 2-room plan,with a central entrance
and similar right hand room.Each room heated from gable end stacks. There is
an outshut at the back and a detached blacksmith's shop.Exterior : 2 storeys.
Asymmetrical 2-window front.Original window openings with cambered brick arches
and brick quoins which up to the eaves and down to the ground as decorative
features.Doorway to right of centre with similar brick surround and later
plank door.The windows have cross-mullion-transom frames of uncertain date.
Above each of the windows a small dormer,its sill at eaves level,with a cambered
almost flat roof and C20 metal casement.Interior not inspected.
The deeds refer to the sale of the cottage by William Houchin in 1719 and in
1823 it is described as a dwelling house and blacksmith shop.In 1868 it was a
beerhouse known as'The Horse Shoes' which still incorporated the blacksmith's
shop.
Source : The owner,J.M. Bailey-Smith.


Listing NGR: TM0435275440

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