Grove Farmhouse
GROVE FARMHOUSE, SWAN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030324
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Grove Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GROVE FARMHOUSE, SWAN LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10891/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030324
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Grove Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROVE FARMHOUSE, SWAN 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:
- GROVE FARMHOUSE, SWAN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cretingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 23203 60903
Details
CRETINGHAM (Off) SWAN LANE TM 26 SW (East side) 1/52 Grove Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. C17 with later C17/early C18 addition. Timber framed with colourwashed infill and roof of black and orange pantiles. Two-storeys, L- shaped plan. Three-cell, baffle-entry plan to the earlier wing. Entrance front: later projecting wing at left which has a C20 French window to the gable end at right and a 2-light C20 window to the gable. The right hand flank of this wing has a 2-light casement at left and a 3-light casement at right of the ground floor and a 3-light first floor casement at right. In the re-entrant angle between this and the earlier wing is a lean-to porch with pantile roof. To right of this in the axial range is a gabled porch at near-centre with a central 1/2-glazed doorway and lateral lights. To right and left of this are 3-light C19 casements. The first floor has two 3-light and two 2-light casements. To the ridge at right of centre is a single-flue stack and a further stack to left of the projecting wing. Right hand gable end : cross window to the ground floor and a 2-light first floor window with an outshut at right of this, slightly recessed, with a 2- light cambered-headed window. Left hand side: gable end of the axial range at left with two 3-light ground floor casements. One 3-light first floor casements and a 3-light attic casement above. Projecting later wing at right of this has a ground floor stable door at left with a single-light window to left of it, and at right of it a 2-light and a single-light window. Flat-roofed dormer window to the first floor with 2 lights at left and one at right. Rear: single-storey lean-to with catslide pantile roof with plank door at right, a cross window at left of that and a 2-light C20 casement at right again. The walling to right of this has two 3-light casements.
Listing NGR: TM2320360903
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 286466
- 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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