Orchard House
ORCHARD HOUSE, MILL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033098
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, MILL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033098
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, MILL HILL
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:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, MILL HILL
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 18907 59918
Details
FRAMSDEN MILL HILL TM 15 NE 4/42 Orchard House - - II
Former farmhouse; built in 3 stages: early C16, late C16, and early C17. 2 storeys, a long 3-cell range. Timber-framed and plastered; both earlier phases have concealed herringbone bricknogging infill. Pantiled roof with chimneys of red brick: a fine C16 parlour chimney is external to the left-hand gable with a diaperwork pattern in burnt headers. At the base is an arch- headed recess. The flanks of the stack are crowstepped and the twin shafts are octagonal (possibly a later rebuild). A central axial C17 chimney has 3 square shafts linked at the head. A similar 2-flue chimney to right is probably a C19 copy. Mainly C20 casements, some with small panes. Early C19 entrance door with 6 fielded panels. The parlour block to left has some fine carpentry of c.1520: beams and joists with triple roll-mouldings, and an embattled cornice. A wide fireplace lintel, moulded and with leaf-carved spandrels; the fireplace in the chamber above has a similar but plainer lintel, and a smaller C17 plastered arched fireplace is inserted beneath it. The parlour block was originally roofed in the opposite direction and extended southwards. The later C16 work has chamfered ceiling joists and arch windbraced close-studding. The C17 service accommodation to right has unmoulded framing.
Listing NGR: TM1890759918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279661
- 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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