Thompsons Farmhouse
THOMPSONS FARMHOUSE, STONE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033086
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thompsons Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THOMPSONS FARMHOUSE, STONE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033086
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thompsons Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THOMPSONS FARMHOUSE, STONE STREET
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:
- THOMPSONS FARMHOUSE, STONE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crowfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 15071 57217
Details
TM 15 NE
4/12
CROWFIELD
Stone Street
Thompsons Farmhouse
II
Former farmhouse, c.1570. 1 storey and attics. 3-cell cross-passage entrance
plan. Timber-framed and plastered with late C20 cable-pattern pargetting in
panels. Hipped thatched roof with an original axial chimney of buff/pink
brick. C19 and C20 small pane casements. Glazed C20 entrance door in open
porch. An unusual sub-medieval house. Twin service rooms (now united).
Cross-passage with massive brick chimney backing onto it. The single-bay hall
has a recess apparently for a bench at the "upper" partition. Loft above hall
and parlour is only sub-divided by an open truss. Late type of crownpost roof
with square posts totally unbraced. Evidence for shuttered diamond-mullioned
windows. Wide lintelled hall fireplace has an integral smoke-curing chamber
at 1st storey level, with stout built-in hanging poles. Access was only from
within the chimney (c.p. A smoke-curing chamber at Brockley: Proc. Suffolk
Inst. Arch.: John McCann, 1982)
Listing NGR: TM1507157217
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279631
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, (1982)
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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