Messuage Farmhouse
MESSUAGE FARMHOUSE, EYE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032302
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Messuage Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MESSUAGE FARMHOUSE, EYE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032302
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Messuage Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MESSUAGE FARMHOUSE, EYE ROAD
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:
- MESSUAGE FARMHOUSE, EYE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 19087 66443
Details
KENTON EYE ROAD TM 16 NE 1/136 Messuage Farmhouse - - II
Former farmhouse. Mid C14 section to right with successive in-line additions of mid C16, C18 and C19, forming a single long range. Part timber framed, the C18 and C19 work in brick, all with textured render applied in 1986. Pantiled roof. C14 section to right is 1 1/2 storeys, the remainder 2 storeys. Main part has 3 windows: late C19 6-paned sashes to left and right; to centre is a C19 small-paned former shop window and above a 4-paned sash window. 1 1/2-storey section has a further 6-paned sash window and a small 2-light casement. 2 stacks with plain red brick shafts, both in the 2-storey section, the older one to the right. 2 mid C20 doors to rear. Interior. C14 section comprises the upper bay and part of the lower bay of a former open hall. The open truss has an arched-braced cambered tie beam, the centre portion cut away. This carries octagonal queen-posts, broach-stopped to a square base; the base and head have a single bold roll-moulding. Intact braces to the collar and arcade plates, all nailed in position. Roof has heavily sooted coupled rafters. This is a very early example of a queen-post roof. Widely-spaced C14 studding. The upper end wall has a heavier central stud with a pair of reverse-curved braces to the tie beam. The rear wallplate has a stop-splayed scarf joint although the arcade plates have edge-halved scarfs. Evidence for doorway into former parlour end. Right gable end has plain studding, perhaps early C17; the inserted floor is supported on a ledge of re-used moulded timber. 2-bay C16 section, one narrow bay containing the stack, with evidence for a former lobby entry doorway. Both floors have chamfered-joist ceilings and some good heavy studding with evidence for original windows. Good C16 moulded door on upper floor. Roof has a single row of butt purlins with cranked wind braces.
Listing NGR: TM1917766229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281560
- 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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