Wards Farmhouse
WARDS FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031200
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wards Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WARDS FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031200
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wards Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WARDS FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- WARDS FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thelnetham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00299 76852
Details
TM 07 NW THELNETHAM HIGH STREET
2/68 Wards Famhouse
GV II
Former farmhouse. C16 and later. 2 storeys and attics: 3-cell form. Timber- framed on a high brick plinth, unusually stepped in 3 stages. Plastered, with the remains of comb-patterned pargetting in panels. Thatched roof. One internal and one end chimney-stack, both with plain red brick shafts. Small- paned sash windows, mainly tripartite, to each storey. 6-panel led door: raised fielded panels, the top 2 glazed: eared architrave, bolection-moulded frieze, plain flat pediment. A single-storey C18 lean-to along the whole rear, with the central section raised to one-and-a-half storeys in early C19 to provide a stair wing. The interior has exposed timberwork, much of it reused, but the basic house had apparently a 2-cell lobby-entrance plan: the ground storey rooms to each side of the stack have roll-moulded joists and main beams but the room at the south-east end has lighter timbering, and seems to be a C18 extension. The roofs have been renewed. The amount of reused timber is surprising, but indicates the possibility of an earlier house on the site.
Listing NGR: TM0029976852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284331
- 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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