Fengate Farmhouse
FENGATE FARMHOUSE, BRETTINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032602
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fengate Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FENGATE FARMHOUSE, BRETTINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032602
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fengate Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FENGATE FARMHOUSE, BRETTINGHAM 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:
- FENGATE FARMHOUSE, BRETTINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rattlesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 97282 54980
Details
RATTLESDEN BRETTENHAM ROAD TL 95 SE 4/83 Fengate Farmhouse - - II Former farmhouse, early or mid C16 with alterations of early C17 and c.1970. Built as a late form of open-hall house, extended to south in C17 and to north in C20. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Pantiled roof, thatched until C20, with 5 gabled casement dormers; some C19 and some C20. Early C17 chimney of red brick with twin flattened hexagonal flues. C19 and C20 small-pane casements. C20 hipped pantiled porch at lobby entrance position with 2-panelled door. To left of chimney is a 2-bay cell with formerly open hall - the head of a window is immediately above an inserted C17 floor structure which has bar-stopped chamfered main beams, and joists chamfered in some areas but not in others. To right of the chimney is a 2-bay C16 room with large unchamfered floor joists and close-studding. Blocked diamond mullioned windows at 1st storey. The chimney was inserted together with the upper floor in C17, and a further bay added at south end. Included despite major repairs of c.1970, as an example of a small open-hall house progressively extended over a long period.
Listing NGR: TL9728254980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280836
- 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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