Low Farmhouse
LOW FARMHOUSE, LOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032333
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Low Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOW FARMHOUSE, LOW ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032333
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Low Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW FARMHOUSE, LOW 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:
- LOW FARMHOUSE, LOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashfield cum Thorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 21159 64036
Details
ASHFIELD CUM THORPE LOW ROAD (off) TM 26 SW 5/7 Low Farmhouse - - II
Former farmhouse. C17, in 2 phases. Timber framed and plastered; some old plasterwork with chevron pargetting. Thatched roof. 3-cell form, the earlier section to right of stack set slightly forward at the front. 1 1/2 storeys. Various casement windows, mainly of C19 date. 2 hooded dormers. C20 gabled porch with plank door. Internal stack with plain C19 shaft. A C19 external gable stack to left, set just forward of the roof ridge, with associated colourwashed brick addition at the base. Interior. Older section, perhaps early C17, in 2 bays: plain first floor studding with straight corner braces. Plastered ground floor ceiling with chamfered bridging beam. Centre cell has crudely-chamfered bridging beam and irregular plain joists, set flat, and an open fireplace. The frame in this section is nearly all concealed. Semi- newel stair by stack. Roof timbers not examined.
Listing NGR: TM2115964036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281431
- 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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