West Street Farmhouse

WEST STREET FARMHOUSE, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032197
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
West Street Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
WEST STREET FARMHOUSE, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1032197
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
West Street Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
WEST STREET FARMHOUSE, WEST STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WEST STREET FARMHOUSE, WEST STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Walsham-le-Willows
National Grid Reference:
TL 98599 70988

Details

TL 97 SE WALSHAM LE WILLOWS WEST STREET

2/84 West Street Farmhouse

GV II

Former Farmhouse. C16, with C18 extension. Timber-framed and rendered; fully hipped plaintiled roof with eaves overhang. 2 storeys; 3-cell form. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft. 3 2-light 4-paned casement windows to the upper floor, 4 larger 6-paned casements to the ground floor. A small enclosed and gabled late C19 porch with corbelled eaves and semi-circular arched doorway, 6-panelled door, and fanlight with radiating glazing-bars. 2 single-storey pantiled lean-to's at the rear. To the left of the internal stack are 3 C16 bays, formerly with a 2-cell end-chimney form. Substantial, widely-spaced studding; stud-to-stud arched bracing in end walls. 2-bay service end, formerly divided into 2, partition wall with hall mainly removed, but evidence for 2 doorways with rectangular heads; heavy plain unchamfered joists. On the upper floor, a blocked 4-light window on the front wall with diamond mullions in situ, and housings for further diamond-mullioned windows in the gable end. Open truss with cambered tie-beam and arched braces springing from the jowls of the main posts. Upper ceilings a later insertion. Simple clasped purlin roof with collars renewed. The chimney-stack is a C18 rebuild, and a C18 kitchen with much poorer timbering has been added to the right of the stack.

Listing NGR: TL9859970988

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
281829
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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