Hill Top Farmhouse
HILL TOP FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033257
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HILL TOP FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 1999-09-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/00453/15
- Rights:
- © Mrs B.A. Curtis. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033257
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL TOP FARMHOUSE
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:
- HILL TOP FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Baylham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 10082 50571
Details
TM 15 SW
3/35
BAYLHAM
Hill Top Farmhouse
GV
II
House, formerly farmhouse. C15, with alterations of c.1621 (date carved on
building). A 3-cell open hall house with a queen-post roof: this type is
occasionally found in north-east Suffolk, but is very rare in medieval
domestic buildings elsewhere in the county. 1 storey and attics. Timber-
framed and plastered; a little C18 rope-pattern pargetting survives. Thatched
roof with gabled casement dormers; these have carved gable tie-beams, one with
"1621.H.H.:H.H.1621" This is the assumed date of the alterations described
below. Chimneys of red brick; the axial and north gable stacks are C17, the
south stack with ovens is of c.1800. Various small-pane casements, mainly
C19. One C17 ovolo-moulded mullioned window; another is complete but blocked.
Boarded entrance door with C20 gabled open porch on posts. The nucleus of the
house has a 2-bay open hall, heavily smoke-blackened, with widely-spaced arch-
braced studwork. Each closed truss has a pair of queen-posts supporting a
collar upon which large square-set purlins are lodged and supported by arch-
braces. The open truss has a cambered collar above jowled queen-posts; the
large arch-braces, the bottoms of the posts and the rest of the truss were
removed in C17. The roof is otherwise without collars and has a ridge-piece,
another rare feature, normally only found in N.E. Suffolk in this context. An
original service cell survives, with lodged upper floor. A further cell was
added to each end of the building with clasped purlin roofs, c.1621; also an
inserted floor in the hall with ovolo-moulded joists. The inserted chimney
backing against the cross-passage may be earlier. A chamber ceiling has C17
vine-scroll -plastering along the central beam. Formerly known as Harrow
Farmhouse.
Listing NGR: TM1008250571
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279228
- 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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