Street Farmhouse
STREET FARMHOUSE, BRANDESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1030570
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Street Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- STREET FARMHOUSE, BRANDESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1030570
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Street Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- STREET FARMHOUSE, BRANDESTON ROAD
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:
- STREET FARMHOUSE, BRANDESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earl Soham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 23223 62872
Details
TM 26 SW EARL SOHAM BRANDESTON ROAD
8/36 Street 25.10.51 Farmhouse
- 11*
Farmhouse. Late C15/early C16 to rear; late C16 main range, extended to left hand side in C18 and with later remodelling to righthand side. Timber framed and plastered, the plaster mostly lined in imitation of ashlar; slated roof to main range, plaintiled to right hand wing, pantiles to earlier rear range. 2 storeys. 2 windows to main range, good C18 3-light and 6-light mullion and transom casements with square leaded panes, the 2 centre lights bowed; lobby entrance with 6-panel raised and fielded door, frieze, cornice and triangular pediment; internal stack. To the right hand side is a lower range set forward with a hipped roof: 2 window range with full-height canted bays and mainly C20 windows. To the rear is a 3-bay late medieval range, originally jettied on 3 sides: internally a section of the jetty with its carved bressummer is still visible together with part of an original doorway with carved spandrels and a mutilated sill of a ground floor oriel window; this part has good internal timbering and a crown post roof (moulded cap to crown post). First floor of main range with part of a late C17 fresco depicting 2 scenes based on the downfall of Troy; the fresco has been cut through by a later staircase, access to which is gained by an unusual door, curved to form a quarter circle. Residence of the C18 diarist William Goodwin.
Listing NGR: TM2322362872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 285808
- 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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