Elm Farmhouse
ELM FARMHOUSE, OTLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033040
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Elm Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ELM FARMHOUSE, OTLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033040
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Elm Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELM FARMHOUSE, OTLEY 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:
- ELM FARMHOUSE, OTLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Helmingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 19678 56948
Details
HELMINGHAM OTLEY ROAD TM 15 NE 4/109 Elm Farmhouse
II*
Farmhouse; early C17, with a cross-wing of late C14 or early C15 to right. 3- cell cross passage entrance plan. Two storeys and attics. Timber framed and plastered; a C17 exposed gable tiebeam to left is embattled. Plaintiled roofs; an axial C17 chimney of red brick and another to rear of parlour cell to left, both have oblong shafts with complex moulded plinths. Mainly mid C20 casements; some C19 casements at rear. Early C19 6-panelled entrance door with pediment. In a parlour to left is a plaster ceiling with early C17 motifs including roses and fleur-de-lys, and an elliptical arched fireplace. A 2-bay cross-wing to right has massive medieval framing: widely spaced studding. An open truss in the 2-bay chamber has long 2-centred arch braces to the cambered tie beam and an altered coupled rafter roof. A smoke blackened partition demonstrates that an open hall stood on the site of the C17 range. A further bay was added to front of cross wing in C17, and a l 1/2 storey wing to the right. All C17 roofs are of wind braced butt purlin type. A partial medieval moat.
Listing NGR: TM1967856948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279728
- 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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