Boundary Farmhouse
BOUNDARY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032023
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032023
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOUNDARY 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:
- BOUNDARY 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. Margaret, Ilketshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 35638 83460
Details
ILKETSHALL ST. MARGARET TM 38 SE 3/27 Boundary Farmhouse 1.9.53 - II* Farmhouse. Part early C16, part early C19. 2 storeys; T-shaped form. Timber-framed and rendered; single roman tiles to older rear range; slates to front range. The rear range is in 2 structural sections with differing roof levels, and has an internal chimney-stack with 4 diagonally-set attached shafts. Various C19 casement windows with a single horizontal bar to lights. Inside, 2 bays of the original house survive, with a fine exposed ground-floor ceiling: main beam with multiple roll-moulding and run-off stops. At one end of the room the wall is covered with C16 panelling in long panels, said to come from a variety of local sources, but possibly resited from a demolished part of the present house. On the upper floor studding with cranked braces at the corners, and a number of blocked original windows. A fireplace with a plain timber lintel, and a 4-centred arched doorway with leaf carving in the spandrels. Arched braces to the tie-beams. Roof in short bays-with one row clasped and one row unstepped butt purlins and windbraces. The adjoining section of the rear range is a C19 replacement. The present main range, aligned south-east north-west, has 3 windows to each floor: 3-light casements, with transomes and horizontal glazing bars. A central entrance door with 6 raised fielded panels. One end chimney-stack. The farm lies on the boundary of the 3 parishes of Ilketshall St. Margaret, St. Michael South Elmham, and Rumburgh.
Listing NGR: TM3563883460
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282244
- 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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