2 BARNS APPROX.30M NORTH-EAST OF FENN FARMHOUSE

2 BARNS APPROX.30M NORTH-EAST OF FENN FARMHOUSE, FENN LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061380
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-2002
List Entry Name:: 2 BARNS APPROX.30M NORTH-EAST OF FENN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: 2 BARNS APPROX.30M NORTH-EAST OF FENN FARMHOUSE, FENN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061380
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-2002
List Entry Name:: 2 BARNS APPROX.30M NORTH-EAST OF FENN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: 2 BARNS APPROX.30M NORTH-EAST OF FENN FARMHOUSE, FENN LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 2 BARNS APPROX.30M NORTH-EAST OF FENN FARMHOUSE, FENN LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: Babergh (District Authority)
Parish:: Hitcham
National Grid Reference:: TL 99256 50978

Details

966/0/10038 19-JUL-02

HITCHAM FENN LANE 2 barns approx.30m north-east of Fenn Farmhouse

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2 attached barns. c.1600. Timber-framed and weatherboarded with corrugated iron roof. Partly brick in far north and south gable end walls. The 6-bay barn has door and window on west side, a door on south end and a porch and open extensions on east side. INTERIOR. Close studded frame. Most side walls have tension braces in one direction but not the other. High incidence of re-used timber studding but the wallplates are original. Bay 5 and 6 at the north end have evidence for an upper floor structure above stabling and truss 5 has mortices in the underside of the tie beam for studding. The studwork at the north end of the east wall was largely replaced in the early C19 but with the principal timbers in place. Bladed scarf joints in the wallplates. In bay 3 from the south is a threshing floor of on-edge white bricks and a substantial porch added early C19 on the east side with entirely re-used timbers. Roof of side purlin construction with principal rafters at half bay intervals. 2 tiers of butt purlins: the upper tier have fairly straight slender windbraces and collars at each principal rafter truss, high up. Archbrace tiebeams and open trusses. At the south end closed trusses have long tension braces. Attached to the north is the second lower barn of 5 bays with door on west wall and large porch on east wall with other extensions. INTERIOR. Full height studding in side walls, the heavy studs re-used from an earlier building together with many tiebeams and principal posts, possibly of c.1500. In the centre of the east wall, a large C19 porch constructed with re-used timbers and clasped purlin roof with threshing floor as with the other barn but all on a smaller scale. Windbraced clasped purlin main roof. These barns form a good farmstead group with Fenn farmhouse (qv) and cartshed approx 40m north of Fenn farmhouse (qv).

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Legacy System number:: 489614
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.