Rooksyard Farmhouse
ROOKSYARD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032054
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Rooksyard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKSYARD FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12810/23
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032054
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Rooksyard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKSYARD 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:
- ROOKSYARD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Spexhall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 38435 82113
Details
TM 38 SE SPEXHALL STOEN STREET
2/29 Rookyards Farmhouse
1-9-53 - II
Farmhouse. Early C17. 2 storeys and attics: L-shaped form. Timber-framed; rendered on rear gable and upper floor of rear wall, the remainder of the main range faced in red brick, in an unusual bond of 2 stretchers and one header to each course. A 2-storey wing at the east end, extending southwards, is brick- built, in C19 English bond. Plaintiled roofs; fluted bargeboards and spike finials to gables. 2 internal chimney-stacks, one with a plain shaft, the other with a rebuilt shaft of 4 attached diagonally-set chimneys. 3 3-light and one 5-light early C19 casement windows to each storeys of the main range, and similar windows to the wing, all of mullion-and-transome type with pintle hinges and segmental arches to frames and surrounds. 2 single-storey gabled brick porches; doors with 6 flush panels, the top 2 glazed. One door abuts on the principal chimney-stack, and the building appears to have a basic lobby- entrance plan. It stands on a site with the remains of a complex moat.
Listing NGR: TM3843582113
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282103
- 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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