Spinks Farmhouse
SPINKS FARMHOUSE, VALLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033023
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Spinks Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SPINKS FARMHOUSE, VALLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033023
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Spinks Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPINKS FARMHOUSE, VALLEY 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:
- SPINKS FARMHOUSE, VALLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Battisford
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 05262 53635
Details
BATTISFORD VALLEY ROAD TM 05 SE
6/19 Spinks Farmhouse - - II
Former farmhouse, mid C16 with extensions of late C16 and early C17 at either end. 2 storeys, 3-cell plan. Timber-framed and roughcast. Concrete pantiled roof, formerly thatched. An internal end chimney of early C17 red brick; an axial chimney part plastered, part rebuilt C20; an external C19 chimney at south-west end. C19 and C20 small-pane casements, some with C20 leaded glazing. Late C20 entrance porch of red brick with glazed door. The core consists of a mid C16 3-cell house with plain heavy framing; diamond mullion window evidence, coupled rafter roof formerly hipped at both ends. Evidence for a timber-framed chimney. In late C16 a large lintelled open fireplace was inserted in the hall, and the parlour cell was extended by one bay. In c.1630 a plaster ceiling with fleurs-de-lys insets was added to the parlour and an arched open fireplace at the gable; in the chamber above is an ovolo-moulded window, and the chimney blocks a late C16 diamond mullioned window.
Listing NGR: TM0526253635
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279794
- 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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