Firtree Farmhouse
FIRTREE FARMHOUSE, SAXHAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032662
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Firtree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FIRTREE FARMHOUSE, SAXHAM STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15349/31
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032662
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Firtree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRTREE FARMHOUSE, SAXHAM 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:
- FIRTREE FARMHOUSE, SAXHAM STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stowupland
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08747 61342
Details
STOWUPLAND SAXHAM STREET TM 06 SE
5/190 - Firtree Farmhouse
-- II
Farmhouse, late C16 and early C17 with fragmentary C15 core. 3-cell lobby- entrance plan. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Concrete pantiled roof, once thatched; an axial C17 chimney of red brick, the shaft rebuilt above the thatch line in mid C20. 3 mid C20 gabled casement dormers. Mid C20 casements. Mid C20 gabled porch at lobby-entrance position with framed and boarded door. Part of a C15 2-centred arched service room doorway is exposed, with adjacent framing; no other medieval work is visible, and later alterations are very extensive throughout. The parlour block to right has exposed framing of c.1600. A wide C16 open fireplace in the hall, the lintel being cambered and having traces of early painted decoration. C17 clasped-purlin roof and service cell to left.
Listing NGR: TM0874761342
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280673
- 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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