Birch House Farmhouse
BIRCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, WENHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036898
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Birch House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BIRCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, WENHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036898
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Birch House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, WENHAM 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:
- BIRCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, WENHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Copdock and Washbrook
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08304 41051
Details
TM 04 SE WASHBROOK OFF WENHAM ROAD 1/40 Birch House Farmhouse II House. Early C17 with C18 and later alterations and additions. Timber-framed, rendered, plain tile roofs. Brick plinth and underpinning. 2 and 2½ storeys. 4 cells, originally 3, extended C18 to east. North face: C20 small paned casements, 6 to ground floor, 4 to first floor, those to ground floor of single of 2-lights, those to first floor of 2-lights. Rear (South). 6 assorted first floor casements, mostly C20, some with diamond leaded panes, but one horizontal sliding sash. Assorted C20 ground floor single, 2 and 3-light casements. Porch, door and window, 1960's. Returns have assorted C20 openings. External stack to south wall. Axial stack set off ridge. A little cable pattern pargetting, part now internal. Interior: Blocked doorway to hall. Remains of shutter slide to window. Stop chamfered roughly cut transferse beams. C17 brickwork to stack which is somewhat altered. Blocked front right-hand 4-light diamond mullion window, and another to rear against stack; to first floor. First floor gable end shutter. Altered clasped purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TM0830441051
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277418
- 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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