Bluegates Farmhouse
BLUEGATES FARMHOUSE, A137
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203987
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bluegates Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BLUEGATES FARMHOUSE, A137
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203987
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bluegates Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLUEGATES FARMHOUSE, A137
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:
- BLUEGATES FARMHOUSE, A137
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wherstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 14622 39807
Details
TM 13 NW WHERSTEAD A137 (west side, off) 3/15 Bluegates Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Probable C17 range forming crosswing to C18 house with C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Timber-framed rendered range, partly cased in painted brick. Otherwise painted brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roofs. L-shaped plan with 3-bay crosswing to right and additions to left and rear. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. C18 range: 5 bays with central early C20 glazed porch flanked by canted bays with plate glass sashes. 12-pane sashes to first floor. Cornice. 2 gabled dormers with bargeboards and casements. End stack to left. Crosswing is underbuilt in brick and has a single-storey later extension to rear gable end. Steeply-pitched roof, bargeboards to gable. Former external stack to left side, now incorporated into C19 extension. Interior: crosswing, framing exposed at 1st floor level, chamfered jowled hall posts, ovolo-mounted tie beam. Pegged long diagonal down brace to studded wall. Spine beam and transverse beam plastered over. Clasped purlin roof. Very steep stair to front gable end room. C18 range: closed-string staircase with square newels, column-on-vase balusters and moulded handrail.
Listing NGR: TM1462239807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277294
- 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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