White House Farmhouse
WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032358
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- White House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032358
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- White House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, THE 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:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, THE 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 13648 69903
Details
THORNDON THE STREET TM 16 NW 3/102 White House Farmhouse - II Former farmhouse. Mid C16 rear wing, the forwardmost cell of which is now incorporated into the front range. Remainder of front range is a 3-cell addition of c.1600. Later C17 alterations. A large house of L-shape plan. Timber framed, mainly plastered. Front roof slope of front range has old plaintiles; the remainder is pantiled. 2 storeys and attic. 4 windows, C19 (first floor) and mid C20 (ground floor) casements. One small original mullioned window below the stack and others to the rear and right gable. 2 doorways with mid C20 boarded doors. Internal stack with 3 octagonal shafts (rebuilt mid C20) on original moulded bases. Rear wing has internal stack with rendered shaft. Internally much of the frame is exposed, with some good close studding and blocked ovolo-mullioned windows of c.1600 in the front range. The hall has an axial bridging beam with ovolo moulding and soffit carved with a band of laurel leaves; ovolo joists with nicked stop-chamfers; ovolo cornice. Parlour has ovolo axial bridging beam with recessed soffit and plain joists. The parlour fireplace has small remains of a hoodmoulded brick arch. Rear wing comprises the earlier farmhouse, later used as service rooms. This wing has evidence for cross-entry doorways and the former service partition. Incomplete plank and muntin screen with 4-centre arched doorway. Above is a 3-bay room with 2 cambered tie beams carrying a queen-post roof. Newel stair by stack, probably C16. In later C17 the front range was given a butt-purlin roof which extended across the parlour cell of the rear wing, the walls of this section being raised about O.7m.
Listing NGR: TM1364869903
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281383
- 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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