Downs Farmhouse
DOWNS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031992
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Downs Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOWNS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031992
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Downs Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWNS FARMHOUSE
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:
- DOWNS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Mary, South Elmham Otherwise Homersfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 28293 84147
Details
HOMERSFIELD TM 28 SE 3/7 Downs Farmhouse -
- II
Former farmhouse. Mid C16 and early C18. 2 storeys and attics; L-shaped form, with a cross-wing on the right. Timber-framed; faced in C19 red brick on the ground floor and the gable of the wing, the remainder rendered. Black glazed pantiles. An internal chimney-stack to the main range, the upper part rebuilt, with 4 attached square moulded shafts on a moulded base. Various old casement windows, 4-light, 3-light and 2-light, some small-paned. At the back, one old square leaded-paned 3-light casement window with transome. Lobby-entrance to the main range: a C19 enclosed and gabled porch in red brick with clay pantiled roof has the Adair monogram above the doorway; the door has 4 flush panels. The early C18 main range has only main posts and main beams, with small chamfer, exposed. Original upper ceilings. The butt-purlin roof has a ridge-piece and intermediate collars between trusses. The mid C16 cross-wing is in 3 bays: ground floor ceilings with cross-beams, heavy unchamfered joists set flat. The upper ceilings are a later insertion. The roof was renewed in the C19, but the cambered tie-beams have mortices for queen-posts.
Listing NGR: TM2829384147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282267
- 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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