Walnut Tree Farm House
WALNUT TREE FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032812
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- WALNUT TREE FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032812
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALNUT TREE FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON
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:
- WALNUT TREE FARM HOUSE, THE COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mellis
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0930074006
Details
MELLIS THE COMMON (SOUTH EAST
TM 07 SE SIDE)
3/33 Walnut Tree Farm House
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-- II
House, latterly 3 dwellings. C16, extended, floor inserted and stack added in
C17, altered and extended C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered with some red
brick casing. Steeply pitched pantiled roof. Originally probably a small 2
bay open hall with storeyed end bay, service bay added to form a 3 cell range.
1 storey and attic. Four 2-light C20 glazing bar casements, 2 C20 3-light
gabled dormers. Rebuilt axial ridge stack at left or upper end of hall. Left
end lean-to outshut with a round headed window to front, attic sash in gable
end. Right gable end is C19 brick cased with C17 external brick stack with
offsets, an arched recess behind stack with a restored 4-light diamond
mullioned window opening above a projecting bracketed and segmental headed
light. To rear an architraved 6 panelled door into service bay, a second
architraved entrance to far right into parlour bay has a boarded door, 2
light C20 glazing bar casements, on first floor a restored 5-light diamond
mullioned window at upper end of hall, three 3-light gabled dormers.
Interior: hall has close studding with full height curved tension bracing,
chamfered cross axial binding beam, service end runout chamfered binding beam,
a 4-light diamond mullioned opening in parlour, first floor reverse curved
bracing in original end walls, collars clasp purlins, some smoke blackening.
Listing NGR: TM0930074006
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280321
- 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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