Grove Farmhouse
GROVE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032015
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grove Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GROVE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032015
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grove Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROVE 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:
- GROVE 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. Andrew, Ilketshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 37501 85658
Details
ILKETSHALL ST. ANDREW TM 38 NE 2/1 Grove Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Late C16, with later extensions. 2 storeys and attics. Timber- framed and rendered; clay pantiles. Basic 3-cell form. An internal chimney stack has a plain white brick shaft with a pilaster strip down the front. A small 2-storey wing projects from the front, and contains the entrance: slightly recessed plank door in a square surround with moulded jambs. Old 2- light and 3-light casement windows with a single horizontal bar to lights; one C20 replacement on the west. A 2-storey C19 extension in colour-washed brick and slates has a 3-light casement window with segmental arched head to surround. A late C19 single-storey lean-to along part of the front overlaps the main range and the extension. Inside, the timber-framed range is in 5 bays, without a chimney-bay. Good exposed studding; to the east of the stack, the main beam has ovolo-moulding and unusual squared-off stops with groove; to the west, chamfered cross-beams with stepped stops. Chamfered main posts with run-off pyramid stops and heavily jowled heads, arched braces to the tie- beams. On the upper floor, one blocked original window has the mullions visible through the plaster. The ceiling of the wing has been partly cut away to insert a late Victorian stair. The upper ceilings are original. Roof in 6 bays with 2 rows of unstepped butt purlins and windbraces; the rafters are pegged to the purlins. The building is irregularly divided into 2 dwellings. It stands on a moated site.
Listing NGR: TM3750185658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282217
- 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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