Church Farmhouse
CHURCH FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352647
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352647
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE
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:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Cross, South Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 29999 84150
Details
SOUTH ELMHAM ST. CROSS TM 38 SW
4/41 Church Farmhouse -
GV II
Farmhouse. Late C15, remodelled in late C16. 2 storeys; 3-cell form. Timber-framed and rendered; clay pantiles. 2 internal chimney-stacks have rebuilt red brick shafts, square, with a raised band and corbelled head. 3- light mid-C20 replacement casement windows with plain glass to lights, 4 to the upper floor, and 3, similar but taller, to the ground floor. Plank door, with a C20 gabled porch roof, supported on brackets. Frame in 5 bays, formerly with a 2-bay open hall and 2 storied ends. The partition wall at the service end has been moved, and the 2 service rooms made into one. The open truss of the hall has a cambered tie-beam supported by arched braces and surmounted by the remains of a plain queen-post truss, but all the rafters were replaced in the late C17 by a butt-purlin roof and it is not clear whether the original roof had a second tier. Its surviving components are smoke-blackened. The inserted stack, between the hall and the parlour, initially heated only the hall, with a second hearth added later: both ground floor hearths have timber lintels. The inserted ceiling in the hall has 2 deep trimmers to the main beam and unchamfered joists. The 2-bay parlour is unusually large and settlement of the gable wall has led to the joists being raised and partly replaced; a blocked stair-trap in one corner; late C17 rebuilding of part of the front wall included the insertion of a 6-light mullioned window. Reversed braces at the corners in the room above.
Listing NGR: TM2999984150
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282301
- 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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