PARK HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031258
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: PARK HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031258
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: PARK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PARK HOUSE

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:: PARK HOUSE

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Euston
National Grid Reference:: TL 91058 77271

Details

TL 97 NW EUSTON EUSTON PARK

5/38 Park House -

- II

House. Early to mid C16, mid C17 and C18. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and rendered with black glazed pantiled roofs. Extensively modernised in 1960s. A range of 3-light small-paned C20 casement windows to each storey: one 2-light window above the porch: 4 gabled dormers with fluted bargeboards and 2-light casements. A C20 enclosed gabled porch with boarded door. One internal chimney-stack, and another on the south gable end, both with plain rebuilt red brick shafts. 8 bays including a chimney bay. The basic house, C16, consisted of the bay to the south of the internal stack, and the 2, possibly 3, bays to the north of it. In the bays to each side of the stack, both forming complete rooms originally, the ground storey ceilings have heavy unchamfered joists, on the north, the main beam has a multiple roll-moulding. When the fireplace on the south side of the stack was opened up during restoration a fireback was discovered, bearing the Royal Arms and the date 166- (most probably 1660, in celebration of the Restoration). The 2 upper rooms in the central section-of the house have reused roll-moulded joists, cut in half lengthwise and set on edge: one has an incised circular floral motif. The northernmost bay has a plain heavy beam-and- joist ceiling, but the 2 intermediate bays have had the joists replaced at a very late stage. At the south end, 2 C18 bays have been added, with an end chimney-stack: typical late framing, reused timbers, roof with 2 rows of butt purlins. At the rear, 2 matching one-and-a-half storey wings, added in the mid C17, with butt-purlin roofs: below one floor a number of mummified cats were discovered during restoration, and 2 remain in the house. Various original doorways, some blocked, remain, and visible outer parts of the frame are weathered. This is the only surviving house of the lost village of Little Fakenham.

Listing NGR: TL9105877271

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 284159
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 39 Suffolk,

Legal

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