Shepherds Farmhouse
SHEPHERDS FARMHOUSE, SHEPHERDS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032673
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERDS FARMHOUSE, SHEPHERDS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032673
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEPHERDS FARMHOUSE, SHEPHERDS LANE
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:
- SHEPHERDS FARMHOUSE, SHEPHERDS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Haughley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 03422 59968
Details
HAUGHLEY SHEPHERDS LANE TM 05 NW
6/117 Shepherds Farmhouse -
-- II
Former farmhouse; a late C15 3-cell open hall house whose parlour cell was rebuilt in mid C16 together with other alterations. 2 storeys, with attic above the parlour cell. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof, hipped at the right hand (service) end. Axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in late C19 red brick with gault brick quoins. A C19 eyebrow casement dormer. Mainly C19 small-pane casements. Late C20 gabled plaintiled entrance porch with framed and boarded door. The 2-bay open hall has an open truss with a rather slender tie-beam and shallow 4-centred arch-braces of a type suggesting a possible early C16 date. Smoke-blackened coupled-rafter roof. A blocked rear cross- entry doorway with 4-centred arched head, and two mutilated service room doorways. The service cell has a diamond-mullioned window and studwork with long windbraces, of arch-form in side walls and of tension-form at the end. At the upper end the partition wall is greatly altered but there is evidence for an early or original smoke bay. Circa 1550 alterations were carried out with good quality carpentry: an inserted upper floor with roll-moulded joists and multiple roll-moulded main beams in the hall. A pair of wide open fireplaces in narrow buff brick, and in the hall a cambered lintel. The parlour cell has good close studding, a similar moulded 1st floor, and a window with roll-and-cavetto mouldings. Clasped-purlin roof. Associated, it is believed, with Alice Rayner in 1557 and remaining in her family until c.1640.
Listing NGR: TM0342259968
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280600
- 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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