Fir Tree Farmhouse
FIR TREE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032248
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fir Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FIR TREE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032248
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fir Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIR TREE 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:
- FIR TREE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mendlesham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 09847 63440
Details
MENDLESHAM MENDLESHAM GREEN TM 06 SE 4/53 Fir Tree Farmhouse -
-- II Former farmhouse. Late C16 with C17 service cross-wing to right. Altered 1916 after a fire which destroyed the roof. Cross-wing reduced to one storey in mid C20. Timber framed; front encased in common brick (dated 1916 with initials 'D.K.' on porch), the rear rendered. Pantiled roof. 3 cells. 2 storeys. 3 windows, 3-light casements without glazing bars, mostly of C19 date, under flat concrete lintols. Lobby entry: gabled porch with semi-glazed panelled door. Internal stack. 2 ovolo-mullioned windows have been exposed at rear of parlour cell. Interior. Much plain studding with no visible bracing. Evidence for removal of many sections of mid rail, suggesting possible reconstruction. Blocked cross-entry doorway. In the hall, an axial floorbeam with large barred stop-chamfers and plain joists. The cross-passage has a similar but structurally separate ceiling, the axial floorbeam bar- stopped at one end. Service partition removed. Original upper floor in parlour cell destroyed 1916. C19 newel stair by stack.
Listing NGR: TM0984763440
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281638
- 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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