Runcton House
- Date:
- 6 Aug 1999
- Location:
- Runcton House, Loraine Way, Bramford, Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, IP8 4JA
- Reference:
- IOE01/00215/22
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
BRAMFORD LORAINE WAY TM 14 NW 7/74 Runcton House - - II House, formerly farmhouse. A C15 open hall is now the rear service wing of an early C19 range facing south. C19 range:- 2 storeys, 3 windows. Red brick, originally colourwashed, with shallow pilasters set back from corners and flanking entrance. Plaintiled roofs with external gable chimneys of red brick. 3-light windows with plastered cambered lintels, square lights above a transome and central casement. C20 glazed 6-panel door in recessea rouna- arched opening. The rear wing comprises a 2-bay open hall probably once having had a further storeyed cell which is now replaced by a C19 lean-to.
The wing is timber-framed, encased towards the road in C19 red brick, and plastered at the rear. The hall has a nearly complete crown-post roof, heavily smoke-encrusted. The open truss has an octagonal crownpost with 4-way bracing and well-moulded capital and base. The supporting tie-beam probably has most of its arch-bracing, now concealed; the foot of one brace can be seen to spring from a pilaster now in a ground floor room. An additional tie-beam, formerly arch-braced, marks the cross-passage position. A 1st floor was inserted into the hall in late C16. A C16 dairy-bakehouse wing at the rear has good timber-framing exposed internally and is little-altered.
Listing NGR: TM1216145789
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0531 IOE Records taken by B A Curtis; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mrs B.A. Curtis. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Curtis, B.A.
Rights Holder: Curtis, B.A.
Brick, Plaster, Tile, Timber, Medieval Open Hall House, Tudor Monument (By Form), Hall House, House, Domestic, Dwelling, Timber Framed House, Timber Framed Building, Dairy, Agriculture And Subsistence, Food And Drink Processing Site, Agricultural Building, Bakehouse, Farmhouse, Agricultural Dwelling, Farm Building
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