Willow Farmhouse
WILLOW FARMHOUSE, ASHFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032466
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Willow Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WILLOW FARMHOUSE, ASHFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032466
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Willow Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLOW FARMHOUSE, ASHFIELD 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:
- WILLOW FARMHOUSE, ASHFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elmswell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 99239 64488
Details
TL 96 SE ELMSWELL ASHFIELD ROAD
5/21 Willow Farmhouse 15.11.54
-- II
Farmhouse, C15 with late C16/early C17 alterations. One storey and attics; a 2-storey with attics cross-wing added to left. A 3-cell open hall house. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof, half-hipped at right-hand end. Two C18/C19 gabled plaintiled dormers, one with 3 leaded-glazed lights. An axial early C17 chimney of red brick, with a frieze of red terracotta tiles forming a diaper pattern. An external service chimney to left is similar, but also has a sawtooth shaft. Late C18 or early C19 3-light casements. Mid C20 battened and boarded entrance door. A single-storey extension to left of C17/C18, and a lean-to C19 extension to right. Interior: The smoke-encrusted open hall roof was originally of crownpost form: the post has been damaged during later alterations by the removal of the octagonal shaft below the braces, and is no longer in the structure. It has a plain splayed capital with 4-centred curved solid plank braces. The hall has widely-spaced tension- braced studding, and a.blocked 4-centred arched cross-entry doorway. The cross-wing was added c.1600, when basecrucks were inserted at the upper level at the junction with the service cell of the older building.
Listing NGR: TL9923964488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281124
- 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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