Drivers Farmhouse
DRIVERS FARMHOUSE, GISLINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033146
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Drivers Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DRIVERS FARMHOUSE, GISLINGHAM ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16227/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033146
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Drivers Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRIVERS FARMHOUSE, GISLINGHAM 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:
- DRIVERS FARMHOUSE, GISLINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Finningham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 06728 69585
Details
FINNINGHAM GISLINGHAM ROAD (NORTH TM 0669 SIDE)
7/10 Driver's Farm House 29.7.55 - II
House, latterly 2 dwellings. Mid C16 and probably earlier, altered early C17 and C19. Timber frame, plastered. Pantiled roofs. Probably a small 2 bay open hall with a storeyed lower end originally; parlour added, floor and stack inserted to form a 3 cell cross passage plan with a 2 bay jettied upper crosswing to left. 2 storeys. Ground floor: cross passage and lobby entrances, boarded doors with simple surrounds, common hoodboard over hall and service 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements, parlour 3-light glazing bar casement on a slightly projecting brick base. First floor 3-light part opening metal frame casement over hall, jettied end has curved brackets to parlour chamber with C19 beading, 3-light glazing bar casement, curved brackets to exposed plates, pentice board, exposed side purlins, bargeboards. Axial ridge stack of C17 brick at left end of main range, slightly lower ridge on cross wing. Right end C19 external stack with an oven outshut, a loft door and hatch, pentice board, exposed plates and side purlins. Left return has an exposed post and mid-rail, jetty to rear of parlour with butt ended joists on 4 large curved brackets. Interior: frame concealed, hall has stop chamfered axial binding beam, joists and mid-rail, bolection moulded fireplace surround, parlour has a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam on storey posts, double roll and hollow moulded bar stopped joists, loft over service bay has tension braces in altered walling, a tie beam removed; otherwise first floor and roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: TM0672869585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279466
- 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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