Menes Farmhouse
MENES FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032714
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Menes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MENES FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032714
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Menes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MENES FARMHOUSE
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:
- MENES FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bacton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 04093 66643
Details
BACTON EARLS GREEN TM 06 NW
1/14 Menes Farmhouse
- II
Former farmhouse, C15 or early C16 core with alterations of mid C16. 3-cell plan. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof with axial chimney of red brick. Mid C20 casement with small panes; two flat-roofed bay windows. C20 thatched gabled porch at lobby entrance position with boarded and battened door. A fragmentary open hall of 2 bays at the centre of the building: smoke-blackened coupled rafter roof with evidence for a hip to left; the house must have been of 2-cell form. An altered original diamond-mullioned hall window. The open truss is missing apart from posts with arch brace mortices. A cell was added to left in mid C16: arch windbraced close studding and heavy lodged unchamfered floor joists. A cell was added to right later in C16 in place of the original service cell. Diamond-mullioned windows also at this stage. Floor joists slightly less massive, also an upper floor was inserted in the hall.
Listing NGR: TM0409366643
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280496
- 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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