Street Farmhouse
STREET FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032354
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Street Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- STREET FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032354
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Street Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- STREET FARMHOUSE, HIGH 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.
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:
- STREET FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorndon
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 14216 69417
Details
THORNDON HIGH STREET TM 16 NW 3/94 Street Farmhouse - II Former farmhouse. Mainly early C15 and C16. Timber framed and plastered, thatched roof. 1½ storeys and attic. 3-cell form with former open hall. Various casement windows. 2 diamond-mullioned windows to right, that to the ground floor with replacement mullions. A small ground floor canted bay with mid C20 windows. C19 doorway, the architrave with panelled jambs and a pedimented cornice; 4-panel door. 3 gabled dormers. Internal stack with square rendered shaft. Internally, much of the C15 framing is concealed. In the front wall is an original cross-entry doorway with 2-centred arch. Open truss has cambered tie beam with intact but concealed braces. Octagonal crown-post with moulded cap and 4-way almost straight braces; base of post concealed. Intact coupled rafters and collar purlin, all heavily sooted. Remainder seems substantially C16. Parlour has bridging beam and closely- spaced joists, all with a single cavetto mould. Intact open fireplace. End wall of parlour has remains of a C16-C17 painting on plaster showing a figure carrying a sword and staff in red with black lining. In the chamber above, a pair of inserted upper crucks supports an attic floor above eaves level. C16 inserted hall ceiling has axial bridging beam with broach stop-chamfers, the joists concealed. A plank and muntin screen against the cross-passage may be contemporary. Stack inserted against outside of upper end wall of hall. The house has been extended about 3m beyond the end of the parlour, perhaps in C18.
Listing NGR: TM1421669417
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281375
- 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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