Potash Farmhouse
POTASH FARMHOUSE, ASHFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033090
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Potash Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POTASH FARMHOUSE, ASHFIELD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033090
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Potash Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POTASH FARMHOUSE, ASHFIELD 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:
- POTASH FARMHOUSE, ASHFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Framsden
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 19797 61395
Details
FRAMSDEN ASHFIELD ROAD TM 16 SE 1/25 Potash Farmhouse II Farmhouse, built in two stages: mid/late C16, and early C17. 2 storeys, 3- cell lobby entrance plan since C17. Timber-framed and roughcast. Thatched roof with C19 undulating bargeboards and fascia soffits. An axial C17 chimney of red brick. Mainly C18 and C19 small-pane casements. C19 boarded entrance door. Unmoulded framing exposed internally: the C16 hall and service cells have arch-windbraced studwork. Coupled-rafter roof rebuilt at service cell, and given clasped purlins in C17. The C16 house was probably built with a 2- cell plan, with a timber framed external chimney at the right hand end of the hall. Over both the hall and service rooms extends a 3-bay chamber with arch- braced tie-beams. 2-bay C17 parlour cross-wing to right with on-edge floor joists and windbraced butt-purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TM1985261003
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279644
- 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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