Fenn Farmhouse
FENN FARMHOUSE, FENN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061379
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Fenn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FENN FARMHOUSE, FENN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061379
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Fenn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FENN FARMHOUSE, FENN LANE
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:
- FENN FARMHOUSE, FENN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hitcham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL9923450954
Details
152110
966/0/10037
19-JUL-02
HITCHAM
FENN LANE
Fenn farmhouse
GV
II
House. C16 in two phases with early C19 extension and alterations. Colourwashed and plastered timber frame with pantile roof and brick ridge stack. Decorative barge boards. 3-unit plan with rear wing making L-plan. 2 storeys. Main front has 3-window range at first floor of 6/6 sashes. 4 similar windows below. On left end a 2-light casement over a 6/6 sash. On right end a 6/6 sash on each floor with lower rear wing to right. Here a triple sash and 3/6 sashes and open porch with flat hood and 6-panel door with windows to sides. Rear has further sashes and casements and a single-storey extension partly infilling the L-plan.
INTERIOR. At the left, south, end is a unit with exposed unchamfered ceiling joists of large dimensions, perhaps early C16, and in the centre hall unit (now one large room with left unit) are bridging beams and joists with broader chamfers with curved stops. An open fireplace of C18/early C19 bricks re-uses a truncated chamfered bressumer. In a cupboard on the stairs is visible some C16 framing. In the roof space are visible framed gable walls, probably early C19, and roof of similar date re-using smoke-blackened joists probably from the earlier roof. In the rear wing bridging beams and joists of pine.
Fenn farmhouse is an evolved farmhouse of C16 and early C19 with much surviving from both periods. Forms a good farmstead group with the 2 barns approx.30m to north-east (qv) and the cartshed approx.40m to north (qv).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489613
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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