Park Farmhouse
PARK FARMHOUSE, GRUNDISBURGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030721
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PARK FARMHOUSE, GRUNDISBURGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1030721
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK FARMHOUSE, GRUNDISBURGH 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:
- PARK FARMHOUSE, GRUNDISBURGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Grundisburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 22687 49756
Details
GRUNDISBURGH GRUNDISBURGH ROAD TM 24 NW (East side) 4/85 Park Farmhouse II Farmhouse. C15 or C16 with C19 additions and alterations. Timber framed with colourwashed render and Red Flemish bond brick skin and a plain tile roof. Two storeys. Two-storey hall plan with inserted first floor. Entrance front: C19 addition at right with steeper roof pitch. The left hand C17 portion has brick walling to the ground floor and C20 fenestration. Projecting single-storey gabled porch at right of centre which has a pointed-arched gable of C20 brick with a cambered-headed entrance arch which is chamfered. Four-panel C20 door within. To right of the porch is a 3-light casement and to left are 2 similar windows, all metal framed. To far right the C19 portion has a similar 3-light window. The first floor has rendered walling and above the porch a 3-light casement with similar windows at either side. Two-light similar casements to far left and right. To the ridge at left of centre is an axial 3-flue stack. The right hand end has a lean-to outshut to the ground floor and a 3-light, a 2-light and a single-light casement to the first floor. Left hand gable end has a C19 canted bay window to the ground floor and a 2-light casement to the first floor. Rear: the walling is stuccoed and grooved in imitation of ashlar blocks. Projecting lean-to outshut at left and projecting plinth to the remainder. Central 3-light window has a wedge-lintel and projecting keystone and may, at one time, have been a doorway. To right of this is a 2-light casement and to the first floor are three 2-light casements.
Interior: one ground floor room has a chamfered ceiling beam supported on an under-beam which is also chamfered and connects to the wall posts by corner arch braces which would appear to be a later insertion. Massive late-C16 or early-C17 chimney stack with chamfered bressumer and some renewed brickwork. C19 staircase hall with a staircase of one flight with turned balusters and moulded and ramped handrail. One further ground floor room with chamfered ceiling beam. To the first floor are a series of trusses having cambered tie beams with arched braces, and a possible spere truss and one with a long central mortice channel as if to receive the tenons of a pair of arched braces forming a pointed arch to the centre of the hall. The roof timbers have all been replaced in the C18 or C19.
Listing NGR: TM2268749756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 285451
- 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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