LAYERS BRECK FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1031165
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1972
List Entry Name:: LAYERS BRECK FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LAYERS BRECK FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1031165
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1972
List Entry Name:: LAYERS BRECK FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LAYERS BRECK FARMHOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LAYERS BRECK FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Rushbrooke with Rougham
National Grid Reference:: TL 90115 63184

Details

TL 96 SW ROUGHAM BLACKTHORPE

5/37 Layers Breck Farmhouse - 21.2.72 II*

Former farmhouse. C15: a Wealden house, with a contemporary rear wing. The storied upper end of the main range is now missing. Part 2 storeys, with later cellar below, part 2 storeys and attics. 3 bays to front range, 2 bays to rear. Timber-framed, with the timbers exposed on most of the front; the remainder rendered. Roofs with pantiles, some black-glazed. An end chimney- stack to each range, that to the main range with 4 hexagonal shafts with attached heads on a plain rectangular base. 2 fireplaces on the external wall indicate the position of the missing storied end: both hearths have rounded backs and arched surrounds, on the upper storey plastered and ovolo-moulded. C20 casement windows in a variety of styles; part of one diamond-mullioned upper window exposed on the right side of the front. The wide doorway has shallow arched spandrels; empty mortices above and to each side of the surround indicate a former original porch (cf. similar evidence at The Little Hall, Market Place, Lavenham). This doorway, with a corresponding doorway on the back wall, made a cross-passage entry to the former 2-bay open hall, divided from the hall by a screen with a wide central opening; this is still in situ, but infilled by later panelling. Crown-post roof, with a very fine open truss: chamfered posts, and a cambered tie-beam with hollow-chamfer moulding; heavy arched braces terminating in carved capitals, both different; a tall octagonal crown-post, moulded at cap and base and braced 4 ways at the head: one brace missing. The front wall of the upper hall bay was pushed forward to the line of the outer wallplate in the late C16; the inserted hall beam of the same date has a plain chamfer and curved stops, and the hearth a plain timber lintel. On the other side of the cross-passage, the doors for the 2 service rooms, with arched heads, and the doorway to the stair, are all in situ. The rear wing has an original arched doorway and window, and seems to have had a separate cross-entry against the rear wall of the main range. Access to the main house was only on the upper storey. The wing has an exposed ceiling with heavy cross-beams, and a large open fireplace replacing a former smoke-bay. The timbering throughout the house is of very good quality.

Listing NGR: TL9011563184

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Legacy System number:: 284458
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.