Chestnut Tree Farmhouse
CHESTNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FRAMLINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032878
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FRAMLINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032878
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chestnut Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FRAMLINGHAM 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:
- CHESTNUT TREE FARMHOUSE, FRAMLINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Laxfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM2893072127
Details
TM 27 SE
4/45
LAXFIELD
FRAMLINGHAM ROAD
Chestnut Tree Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Mid C16 with early C17 rear wing and early C19 alterations.
Timber framed, pebbledash render at front, plastered at rear. Front slope of
roof is slated, rear slope has glazed black pantiles. 2 storeys. 3-cell
form. 4 windows, irregularly-spaced sashes with glazing bars. C19 4-panel
door in 2 leaves, with glazed upper panels; pilasters and entablature. Mid
C20 glazed lean-to porch. Gable stack to left with white brick shaft. The
main stack between hall and parlour was removed in mid C20. Some exposed
framing, with evidence for diamond-mullioned windows at the service end (one
in situ). Part of one 4-centre arched cross-entry doorway. Cross partition
at service end removed. Plain crownpost roof: square crown posts braced to
the collar purlin; the crown post in the open truss over the hall chamber is
stop-chamfered. The C16 rafters were cut in early C19 when a shallower-pitch
roof was made. Small rear wing, probably a dairy, with intact first floor
framing and an altered queen-post roof.
Listing NGR: TM2893072127
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280165
- 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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