Fairstead Farmhouse
FAIRSTEAD FARMHOUSE, WASH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032055
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Fairstead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRSTEAD FARMHOUSE, WASH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032055
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Fairstead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRSTEAD FARMHOUSE, WASH LANE
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:
- FAIRSTEAD FARMHOUSE, WASH LANE
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 38348 79590
Details
TM 37 NE SPEXHALL WASH LANE
5/31 Fairstead Farmhouse
1-9-53 - II
Farmhouse. Late C16. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed, with timbers exposed on the front; plaintiled roofs. An internal chimney-stack with 4 attached hexagonal shafts on a square base, and a later plain stack added on what was formerly the end of the house, dated 1698. Spaced across the front are 4 full height Edwardian bays with brick bases and mullion-and-transom windows to each storey. In the roof, 4 hipped dormers with tile-hung cheeks and diamond leaded casement windows. This range has a basic 3-cell internal chimney and cross-passage form, but the 2 cross-passage doorways have been blocked and replaced by a lobby-entrance. A plank and muntin screen dividing off the entry from the hall is still in situ. Plain timbering and ceilings exposed inside: the main posts have long jowls, and there was tension bracing in the partition walls. The roof has clasped side purlins. An archway has been cut through the base of the internal stack to give access to a stair. The date on the end stack relates to converting the unheated service area into a heated kitchen. At the rear, a long 2-storey range, possibly originally a granary, has been converted into living accommodation, and linked to the main house by an Edwardian extension. There is also a lean-to corridor of the same date running along the back of the main house. These were designed by Louis Sarel, the architect responsible for the extensions to Spexhall Manor.
Listing NGR: TM3834879590
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282105
- 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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